Will you, Shakespeare, sing first? [Shakespeare, as if speechless, with a gesture of the hand, draws back, still gazing at Miss Fitton. Southampton turns to Miss Fitton.] Shall it be a song of love or war?

Miss Fitton:

I prefer fighting or laughing to languishing.

Lady Jane Wroth:

[Affectedly] And I love—women were made for love.

Lady Rutland:

Any song for a single voice.

Marston:

[To Fletcher.] A song, Fletcher!

Fletcher: