Yet I have known more women than one die of that small passion's frustrating.
PRINCESS
But you have known also, I reckon, many a man in whom life, what he had to live for, was stronger than all love. They say the Duke my cousin's melancholy sickness was due to love which he had outlived.
DIEGO
They say so, Madam.
PRINCESS (thoughtfully)
I think it possible, from what I know of him. He was much with my father when a lad; and I, a child, would listen to their converse, not understanding its items, but seeming to understand the general drift. My father often said my cousin was romantic, favoured overmuch his tender mother, and would suffer greatly, learning to live for valour and for wisdom.
DIEGO
Think you he has, Madam?
PRINCESS