Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards: A Tragedy — John Shaqi
Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards: A TragedySwinburne, Algernon Charles
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Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards: A Tragedy
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
English drama; Tragedies (Drama)
ROSAMUND.
I thank thee. Good Narsetes,
Give him the chalice. Women slain by fire
Thirst not as I to pledge thee.
[_As_ ALBOVINE _is about to take the cup_, ALMACHILDES _rises and stabs
him_.
ALBOVINE.
Thou, my boy?
[_Dies_.
ROSAMUND.
I. But he hears not. Now, my warrior guests,
I drink to the onward passage of his soul
Death. Had my hand turned coward or played me false,
This man that is my hand, and less than I
And less than he bloodguilty, this my death
Had been my husband’s: now he has left it me.
[_Drinks_.
How innocent are all but he and I
No time is mine to tell you. Truth shall tell.
I pardon thee, my husband: pardon me.
[_Dies_.
NARSETES.
Let none make moan. This doom is none of man’s.
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