gates are between us.

SHAKESPEAR. _[kissing her hand]_ My body goes through the gate into
the darkness, madam; but my thoughts follow you.

ELIZABETH. How! to my bed!

SHAKESPEAR. No, madam, to your prayers, in which I beg you to
remember my theatre.

ELIZABETH. That is my prayer to posterity. Forget not your own to
God; and so goodnight, Master Will.

SHAKESPEAR. Goodnight, great Elizabeth. God save the Queen!

ELIZABETH. Amen.

_Exeunt severally: she to her chamber: he, in custody of the warder,
to the gate nearest Blackfriars._

AYOT, ST. LAWRENCE, _20th June_ 1910.

Notes on the editing: Italicized text is delimited with underlines.
Punctuation and spelling retained as in the printed text.
Shaw intentionally spelled many words according to a non-standard
system. For example, "don't" is given as "dont" (without apostrophe),
"Dr." is given as "Dr" (without a period at the end), and
"Shakespeare" is given as "Shakespear" (no "e" at the end). Where
several characters in the play are speaking at once, I have indicated
it with vertical bars ("|"). The pound (currency) symbol has been
replaced by the word "pounds".

End of Project Gutenberg's Dark Lady of the Sonnets, by George Bernard Shaw

*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS ***

***** This file should be named 1050.txt or 1050.zip *****
This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.gutenberg.org/1/0/5/1050/

Produced by Ron Burkey, and Amy Thomte

Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.

Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules,
set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to
protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and
research. They may be modified and p