Pr. And let the maid too hear, for ’tis of her

I speak, to tell her whither she should turn

The day ye drive her forth from hearth and home.

In. What sayst thou? drive her out? and we? from home? 1026

Banish the comfort of our eyes? Nay rather

Believe that these obedient hands will tear

The heart out of my breast, ere it do this.

Pr. When her wild cries arouse the house at night,

And, running to her bed, ye see her set 1031

Upright in trancèd sleep, her starting hair