I would restore thee fruitful Kent, the gift
Of Vortigern for Hengist's ill-bought aid,
But that my Britons brook no foreign power,
To lord it in a land, sacred to freedom,
And of its rights tenacious to the last.
Osw. Nor more than thou hast offered would I take;
I would refuse all Britain, held in homage;
And own no other masters but the gods.
Enter, on one side, Merlin, Emmeline, and Matilda. Conon, Aurelius, Albanact, with British Soldiers, bearing King Arthur's Standard displayed. On the other side, Guillamar, and Osmond, with Saxon Soldiers, dragging their Colours on the Ground.
[Arth. going to Emm. and embracing her.