Only with something ominous and dark,

Fatal, inevitable.

Lady Car. Strafford! Strafford!

Straf. Not by this gate! I feel what will be there!

I dreamed of it, I tell you: touch it not!

Lady Car. To save the King,—Strafford, to save the King!

[As Strafford opens the door, Pym is discovered with Hampden, Vane, etc. Strafford falls back: Pym follows slowly and confronts him.

Pym. Have I done well? Speak, England! Whose sole sake

I still have labored for, with disregard

To my own heart,—for whom my youth was made