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Vol. XII.

No. 2

--wilt thou not haply saie,

Truth needs no collour with his collour fixt,

Beautie no pensell, beauties truth to lay:

But best is best if never intermixt.

Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?

Excuse no silence so, for 't lies in thee,

To make him much outlive a gilded tombe:

And to be praised of ages yet to be.

Then do thy office----

The Queen of Samland.	Sköll,	}	The Duke's men.
The young Prince, her son.	Ottar,
Anna Goldhair, her attendant.	Gylf,
Cölestin, her Major-domo.	The Burial-wife.
The Chancellor.	Miklas, a peasant.
Widwolf, Duke of Gotland.	An old fisherman, a page,councillors, men and women of theQueen, the Duke's men, the people.
Prince Witte.
Hans Lorbass, his servant.
The scene of the first and fifth acts is laid on the coast of Samland;that of the second, third, and fourth acts in the capital city. Between the fourth and fifth acts a period of fifteen years elapses.