SIMON RENARD.
Your Majesty is destroying herself without saving him! The second court is reached. What does the Queen command?
THE QUEEN.
You are all cowards, and Clinton is the worst of all. Ah, Clinton, I will remember this, my friend!
SIMON RENARD.
What does the Queen command?
THE QUEEN.
Oh, to be abandoned by all of you! to have confessed all without obtaining anything! What sort of creatures are these noblemen here? That populace is infamous! I would like to crush them under my feet. There are times then, when a queen is nothing but a woman? You will pay dear for this, gentlemen!
SIMON RENARD.
What does the Queen command?