KING.
You shall be welcome, madam, to my court.
PRINCESS.
I will be welcome then. Conduct me thither.
KING.
Hear me, dear lady. I have sworn an oath.
PRINCESS.
Our Lady help my lord! He’ll be forsworn.
KING.
Not for the world, fair madam, by my will.
PRINCESS.
Why, will shall break it; will, and nothing else.
KING.
Your ladyship is ignorant what it is.
PRINCESS.
Were my lord so, his ignorance were wise,
Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance.
I hear your Grace hath sworn out housekeeping.
’Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,
And sin to break it.
But pardon me, I am too sudden bold.
To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me.
Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,
And suddenly resolve me in my suit.
[She gives him a paper.]
KING.
Madam, I will, if suddenly I may.