with him. This learn from me.
There is no other let.

III:2:18 SOL.
I learn from thee
What other lips should tell me.

III:2:19 KING.
Girl, art sure
Of this same lover?

III:2:20 SOL.
O! I'll never doubt him.

III:2:21 KING.
And yet may be deceived.

III:2:22 SOL.
He is as true
As talismanic steel.

III:2:23 KING.
Why, then thou art,
At least thou should'st be, happy. Smile, Solisa;
For since the Count is true, there is no bar.
Why dost not smile?

III:2:24 SOL.
I marvel that Alarcos
Hath been so mute on this.

III:2:25 KING.
But thou art sure
He is most true.

III:2:26 SOL.
Why should I deem him true?
Have I found truth in any? Woe is me,
I feel as one quite doomed. I know not why
I ever was ill-omened.

III:2:27 KING.
Listen, girl;
Probe this same lover to the core; 'tmay be,
I think he is, most true; he should be so
If there be faith in vows, and men ne'er break
The pledge its profits them to keep. And yet--

III:2:28 SOL.
And what?

III:2:29 KING.
To be his Sovereign's cherished friend,
And smiled on by the daughter of his King,
Why that might profit him, and please so much,
His wife's ill humour might be borne withal.

III:2:30 SOL.
You think him false?

III:2:31 KING.
I think he might be true:
But when a man's well placed, he loves not change.

[Enter at the back of the Scene Count ALARCOS disguised.
He advances, dropping his Hat and Cloak.]

Ah, gentle cousin, all our thoughts were thine.

III:2:32 ALAR.
I marvel men should think. Lady, I'll hope
Thy thoughts are like thyself, most fair.

III:2:33 KING.
Her thoughts
Are like her fortune