To whom you were betrothed so long ago.
Why, how you sigh!
Hilar.My liege, I’m much afraid
The Princess Ida has not come with him.
Hilde. And why?
Hilar.I’ve heard she has forsworn the world,
And, with a band of women, shut herself
Within a lonely country house, and there
Devotes herself to stern philosophies.
Hilde. Then, I should say, the loss of such a wife