And let me, as these phrase it, wed my love

Yet keep my Duchy? You perhaps exceed

Him, even, in disinterestedness!

Berth. How, lady, should all this affect my purpose?

Your will and choice are still as ever, free.

Say, you have known a worthier than myself

In mind and heart, of happier form and face—

Others must have their birthright: I have gifts,

To balance theirs, not blot them out of sight.

Against a hundred alien qualities,