on our heads! O God, O God!
When I recall the passages of love
That have ensued between me and this man,
And with thy sanction, and then just bethink
He is another's, O it makes me mad.
Talk not to me of sceptres: can she rule
Whose mind is anarchy? King of Castille,
Give me the heart that thou didst rob me of!
The penal hour's at hand. Thou didst destroy
My love, and I will end thy line--thy line
That is thy life.

I:4:63 KING.
Solisa, I will do all
A father can,--a father and a King.

I:4:64 SOL.
Give me Alarcos!

I:4:65 KING.
Hush, disturb me not;
I'm in the throes of some imaginings
A human voice might scare.

END OF THE FIRST ACT.

ACT II

SCENE 1

A Street in Burgos.

[Enter the COUNT OF SIDONIA and the COUNT OF LEON.]

II:1:1 SIDO.
Is she not fair?

II:1:2 LEON.
What then? She but fulfils
Her office as a woman. For to be
A woman and not fair, is, in my creed,
To be a thing unsexed.

II:1:3 SIDO.
Happy Alarcos!
They say she was of Aquitaine, a daughter
Of the De Foix. I would I had been banished.

II:1:4 LEON.
Go and plot then. They cannot take your head,
For that is gone.

II:1:5 SIDO.
But banishment from Burgos
Were worse than fifty deaths. O, my good Leon,
Didst ever see, didst ever dream could be,
Such dazzling beauty?

II:1:6 LEON.
Dream! I never dream;
Save when I've revelled over late, and then
My visions are most villanous; but you,
You dream when you're awake.

II:1:7 SIDO.
Wert ever, Leon,
In pleasant Aquitaine?

II:1:8 LEON.
O talk of Burgos;
It is my only subject--matchless town,
Where all I ask are patriarchal years
To