PRINCESS.

These are but the dreams of thy young fancy;

I cannot comprehend thy choice. I have heard

Of men who have waded through slaughter

To a throne; of proud ambitions, struggles

Fierce and wild for some imagined good; of men

Who have even cut in twain the crimson threads

That lay between them and a throne; but I

Never heard of men resigning ease for toil,

The splendor of a palace for the squalor