But the king's own adopted: heart and house

Open to you—the idol of a court

'Which heaven might copy'—sing our poet-sort.

In this emergency, on you depends

The issue: plead what bliss the king intends!

Should the duke frown, should arguments and prayers,

Nay, tears if need be, prove in vain,—who cares?

We leave the duke to his obduracy,

Companionless,—you, madam, follow me

Without, where divers of the body-guard