You, gentlemen, shall see a sight this hour

To talk of all your lives. Close after me!

"My friend of friends!"

[Strafford and the rest go out.

Lady Car. The King—ever the King!

No thought of one beside, whose little word

Unveils the King to him—one word from me,

Which yet I do not breathe!

Ah, have I spared

Strafford a pang, and shall I seek reward