Uprear my royal and encircled brow,
And, in the face of the Omnipotent,
Bid bold defiance.—
This my determination, then, shall be,
So firm as adamant the end I’ll see.
SCENE II.—A CHAMBER IN VORTIGERN’S PALACE.
Enter Edmunda and Flavia.
Fla. “My dearest mother! why let watery grief,
“Like a corroding and slow malady,
“Nip thus the fairest and most beauteous form