You do mistake me now,--this dream--

NAAMAN:

Ah, wake me not! For I can conquer death

Dreaming this dream. Let me at last believe,

Though gods are cruel, a woman can be kind.

Grant me but this! For see,--I ask so little,--

Only to know that thou art faithful,--

Only to lean upon the thought that thou,

My wife, art near me, though I touch thee not,--

O this will hold me up, though it be given