Our English dames are running mad enough,

And must be duchesses because—look ye—

They're wantons to a king! Out on your kind!

[Aside, slowly] "'Twas John, I think, who set your countess' father

On fortune's road." You've been a handsome woman—

Could foot right well on Venus' heels. My soul,

There's beauty in you yet to draw an eye

O'er the picket of defence!

La. Alb. My lord, I pray you——

Alb. 'Tis well that our young Richard has my eye,