Meg. (returning). Noble Prince, will your Illustrious Consort and yourself deign to follow me?

Asan. Nay, good Megacles, will you and these gentlemen go first? I have a word to say to the Lady Gycia. We will be with you before the guests are seated.

Meg. I obey, my Lord Asander, and will await you at the door.

[Megacles, Lysimachus, and the rest, pass on.

Asan. Gycia, though we have passed from amity

And all our former love, yet would I pray you,

By our sweet years of wedded happiness,

Give ear to me a moment. It may be

That some great shock may come to set our lives