Spenser.
“Interrogate me, my lord, that I may answer each question distinctly, my mind being in sad confusion at what I have seen and undergone.”
Essex.
“Give me thy account and opinion of these very affairs as thou leftest them; for I would rather know one part well than all imperfectly; and the violences of which I have heard within the day surpass belief.
“Why weepest thou, my gentle Spenser? Have the rebels sacked thy house?”
Spenser.
“They have plundered and utterly destroyed it.”
Essex.
“I grieve for thee, and will see thee righted.”
Spenser.