Chamb. My Lord!—

A Lord. His strength’s a lion’s—

Voices within. The King! The King!—

Enter King.

A Lord. And on a sudden how he stands at gaze,

As might a wolf just fasten’d on his prey,

Glaring at a suddenly encounter’d lion.

King. And I that hither flew with open arms

To fold them round my son, must now return

To press them to an empty heart again!