Gaina. Here's my lady. Now don't tell her you're going. Just go.
Ber. Just ... go.
Gaina. [At right] Ay, you've got it.
[Exit Gaina as Ardia re-enters]
Ard. My brothers are at supper. Will you join them,
Or do you fast?
Ber. I fast.
Ard. A stern religion
Is yours, my friend.
Ber. I've chosen it. Ardia,
You know me for a knight.
Ard. [Softly] Who wears no sword.
Ber. But in the English isle where I was born,
I was a monk ... and true. True am I now,
Save that my cell is what men call the world.