“No! rather let your griefs now pine unseen,

“Where cold restraint can neither chide nor curb ye.”

Farewell! time then be yours until to-morrow.

[Exeunt.

SCENE VII.—A HALL IN VORTIGERN’S PALACE.

Enter Vortigern.

Vor. How stands it now?—then am I but protector?

Oh! ’tis an attribute my soul abhors,

To sovereignty a pander and a slave,

That looks with wistful eyes upon the crown,