ACT I
Morning. Scene. A corridor leading to the Audience-chamber.
Gaucelme, Clugnet, Maufroy and other Courtiers, round Guibert who is silently reading a paper: as he drops it at the end—
Guibert. That this should be her birthday; and the day
We all invested her, twelve months ago,
As the late Duke's true heiress and our liege;
And that this also must become the day ...
Oh, miserable lady!
1st Courtier. Ay, indeed?