FIRST MUSICIAN.

I have heard he loved you,

As some old miser loves the dragon-stone

He hides among the cobwebs near the roof.

DEIDRE.

You mean that when a man who has loved like that

Is after crossed, love drowns in its own flood,

And that love drowned and floating is but hate.

And that a king who hates, sleeps ill at night,

Till he has killed, and that, though the day laughs,