A royal bride. We like you better for it,

But she may like you less. Give her a word.

Oc. O, fairest woman that ever made the earth

More sweet and beauteous to live upon,

You'll find in me a true and gentle lord.

These tears I'll teach to run a smiling race

And in a happy death forget their birth.

[Attempts to embrace her]

Ara. Open the prisons, call some convict forth,

And I will wed him, but not you! These lords