Gui. Stay! for the present ...

Duch. Stay, sir? I take aught

That teaches me their wrongs with greater pride

Than this your ducal circlet. Thank you, sir!

[The Duchess reads hastily; then, turning to the Courtiers—

What have I done to you? Your deed or mine

Was it, this crowning me? I gave myself

No more a title to your homage, no,

Than church-flowers, born this season, wrote the words

In the saint's-book that sanctified them first.