Mar. 'Twas there I swooned——

Kent. The dagger in thy hand——

Mar. Yes, in my hand, but, Hubert—hear me, Hubert!

I saw you come from Glaia's curtained bed,

Slow and despairing, murmuring "She sleeps,"

As though you said she slept to wake no more.

I entered, saw her pale, drew back the coverlet—

There ran the stream that drained her beauty's rose—

There lay your dagger—yours. And then I thought

By dying there to save your life and name,