Wilt thou then
Fly?
HILDEGARD.
Dost thou know what flight means—thou?
It means
Fear. And is fear a new-born friend of thine?
ALMACHILDES.
God help us! if he live, and hate not man—
If Satan be not God. We will not fly.
Enter Albovine and Rosamund.
ALBOVINE.
Fly? What should love at height of happiness
Or youth at height of honour fear and fly?
Would ye take wing for heaven? take shame on earth
To wed in peace and honour?
ALMACHILDES.
No, my king.
No, surely.