QUEEN. Farewell, Matilda; if I live, believe
I will remember this. O, how I grieve
That I should wrong so innocent a maid!
Come, lady, old Fitzwater is not far:
He'll weep to see these scars, full well I know.
MAT. Would I were from this woful world of war!
Sure I will 'scape, and to some nunnery go.
[Exeunt.
SCENE V.
Enter KING, SALISBURY, HUBERT.
KING. Had you her, then, had you her in your power?
SAL. Ay, marry had we: we had taken her.
KING. O, had she been in mine, not all earth's power
From my power should have freed her!
SAL. You are a king, and high are princes' thoughts:
It may be, with your sight you could have chas'd
A host of armed men; it may be so:
But we, your subjects, did the best we could.
Yet Bruce the father, backing Bruce the son,
Scatter'd our troops, brought rescue to Matilda,
And took your peerless queen their prisoner.
KING. On all the race of Bruces for this wrong
I will have vengeance! Hubert, call in Brand. [Exit HUBERT.
My Lord of Salisbury, give us leave awhile
To be alone.