My lady! Is this, too, for the king? _Mar._ [_Reviving_] You shall not go! _Hub._ I must--and now. Let me but press your hand---- _Mar._ No, no, my lips! Hubert, let us be true. Death watches now and will report all lies To Heaven. Now I must see you go from me, Out of my eyes as stars go from the sky, And never, never see you come again, Let me once hear you say you love me, Hubert, And all the years that I must weep for thee I'll keep the words as a sweet golden bell To sound whene'er my ears want music. _Hub._ Thou art the king's. _Mar._ Nay, I will lay my head Upon the block, ere pillow it by his. _Hub._ Then we'll be mad together, Margaret. To go one step in this is to go farthest. Ah, yesterday I saw a knight I loved Sink in his blood; but when he called the name Of his dear bride, and died as it made sweet His lips, I thought of you and envied him. And now, so soon, his fortune is my own. [_Calls_] Come, father! [_To Margaret_] Art afraid? _Mar._ Ah, yes, afraid That I may lose thee! _Hub._ Is it hell, or Heaven? [_Re-enter friar Sebastian_] Good father, when two souls have kissed so close They in each other lose the form of self, And neither body knows its own again, Wouldst join them mortally, that being one They can not go amiss? _Fr. Seb._ If they be free, My son, to take the vows. _Hub._ Thou knowest us. _Fr. Seb._ I've blessed ye both as children. _Mar._ I am free By my soul's right, and though a princess born, Here choose my lord. _Fr. Seb._ My daughter, thou art noble, And must be written fair though envy keep The beadroll of thy faults, but 'tis poor rank Not thee stoops to this choice. _Mar._ I know it, father. Though it should cost my fortune, name and place, I'd give them all to be his wife one hour. _Fr. Seb._ Then, by my sacred vows, as I believe Love is from Heaven, and 'tis God himself Who fosters its sweet growth through all the blood Till action, thought, yea, life, do hang upon it, I'll bind ye in the dear eternal bonds, And bless your union with the holy feast. Come in with me. [_Exit, rear_] _Hub._ [_Embracing her_] 'Tis Heaven, Margaret! [_Curtain_] ACT II SCENE 1. _Within Dover castle. Same room as in act first. Enter Glaia followed by Eldra._ _Eld._ O, my lady, up all night, and now 'tis barely day you must be going! _Gla._ My good Eldra, you would teach my shadow constancy, for you follow me without let or leave from the sun.