Becket and other plays by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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So I do.
Men are God's trees, and women are God's flowers; And when the Gascon wine mounts to my head, The trees are all the statelier, and the flowers Are all the fairer. HENRY. And thy thoughts, thy fancies? BECKET. Good dogs, my liege, well train'd, and easily call'd Off from the game. HENRY. Save for some once or twice, When they ran down the game and worried it. BECKET. No, my liege, no!--not once--in God's name, no! HENRY. Nay, then, I take thee at thy word--believe thee The veriest Galahad of old Arthur's hall. And so this Rosamund, my true heart-wife, Not Eleanor--she whom I love indeed As a woman should be loved--Why dost thou smile So dolorously? BECKET. My good liege, if a man |
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