Nurse: There is no blame upon you, but some
that had too much talk!
(Goes on keening.)
Manus: What call had I to come humbugging
and letting on as I did, teasing and tormenting
her, and not coming as a King should that is come
to ask for a Queen! Oh, come back for one minute
only till I will ask your pardon!
Dall Glic: She cannot come to you or answer
you at all for ever.
Manus: Then I myself will go follow you and
will ask for your forgiveness wherever you are gone,
on the Plain of Wonder or in the Many-Coloured
Land! That is all I can do ...to go after you
and tell you it was no want of respect that brought
me in that dress, but hurry and folly and taking
my own way. For it is what I have to say to you,
that I gave you my heart's love, what I never gave
to any other, since first I saw you before me in
my sleep! Here, now, is a short road to reach you!
(Takes sword.)
Prince of Marshes: (Catching his hand.) Go
easy now, go easy.
Manus: Take off your hand! I say I will die
with her!
Prince of Marshes: That will not raise her up
again. But I, now, if I have no skill in killing
beasts or men, have maybe the means of bringing
her back to life.
Nurse: Oh, my blessing on you! What is it
you have at all?