(In a paroxysm of rage.)

You monster! I would I could waken some morning,

And find you had taken French leave without warning;

You should never be sought like Aladdin’s famed palace.

You spoil my sweet temper—you make me bear malice:

For it is a hard fate, I will say it and sing,

Which has fix’d me to gaze on so frightful a thing.

Rhyllon—(with dignified equanimity.)

Content thee, Bronwylfa, what means all this rage?

This sudden attack on my quiet old age?