I never served you: 't was myself I served—
Nay, served not—rather saved from punishment
Which, had I failed you then, would plague me now!
My life continues yours, and your life, mine.
But if, to take God's gift, I swerve no step—
Cleves! If I breathe no prayer for it—if she,
[Footsteps without.
Colombe, that comes now, freely gives herself—
Will Cleves require, that, turning thus to her,
I ...