’Tis almost pity he is escaped from death.

I would tell Constance, but her throbbing brain

Hath no interpreter, and in her ear

All words are meaningless, or mean alike

Something insane, which in her eager dreaming

Steals the world’s place. I have no power to tell.

[Exit.

SCENE · 3

Room in the Palace. HUGO and PHILIP meeting.

HUGO.