The Saint's Tragedy - Charles Kingsley 3 стр.

SCENE III

A Chamber in the Castle.  Sophia, Elizabeth, Agnes, Isentrude, etc., re-entering.

[Sophia and Agnes go out.]

Isen.  Proud hussy!  Thou shalt set thy foot on her neck yet, darling,

When thou art Landgravine.

Page.  The Count of Varila, Madam, begs permission to speak with you.

[Count Walter enters.]

[Elizabeth looks over the letter and casket, claps her hands and bursts into childish laughter.]

SCENE IV

The Bridal Feast.  Elizabeth, Lewis, Sophia, and Company seated at the Dais table.  Court Minstrel and Court Fool sitting on the Dais steps.

[Sophia descends from the Dais, leading Elizabeth.  Ladies follow.]

[aloud] Lead on.  I’ll follow.  [Exeunt.]

Fool.  There, now.  No fee for the fool; and yet my prescription was as good as those old Jeremies’.  But in law, physic, and divinity, folks had sooner be poisoned in Latin, than saved in the mother-tongue.

ACT II

SCENE I.  A.D. 1221-27

Elizabeth’s Bower.  Night.  Lewis sleeping in an Alcove.

Elizabeth lying on the Floor in the Foreground.

[Turning toward the bed.]

[Rises and goes to the window.]

SCENE II

A Chamber in the Castle.  Elizabeth—the Fool

Isentrudis—Guta singing.