As yet I do not: but, as I can learn,

He hearkens after prophecies and dreams;

55 And from the cross-row plucks the letter G,

And says a wizard told him that by G

His issue disinherited should be;

And, for my name of George begins with G,

[♦] It follows in his thought that I am he.

[60] These, as I learn, and such like toys as these

[♦] Have moved his highness to commit me now.

Glou. Why, this it is, when men are ruled by women: