And will not suffer us to fetch him out,
Nor send him forth, that we may bear him [hence].
Therefore, most gracious Duke, with thy command
160 Let him be brought forth, and borne hence for help.
Duke. [Long since] thy husband served me in my wars;
And I to thee engaged a prince’s word,
When thou didst make him master of thy bed,
To do him all the grace and good I could.
165 Go, some of you, knock at the abbey-gate,
And bid the lady abbess come to me.