ACT IV.
SCENE I.—(Rise outer curtain.) Passage near the Queen’s apartments. Enter Dagonet.
Dagonet. ’Tis little I can do, but I will mend
The devilment that I have helped to cause.
Hark, now they come! Here will I take my stand.
’Tis over my dead body when they come,
That they’ll come at her. Ho! stand without!
(Sounds heard without. Enter Mordred, Sir Agravaine and other Knights with torches and naked swords. Dagonet draws.)
Where go you, Masters?
Mordred. We go this road, ’ware how you stop our way.