Part 45 (2/2)

Was there not coming a Queen long desired, From a land over sea, my life to fulfil?

MASTER OLIVER

Belike it was so--but thou leftst it untold of.

KING PHARAMOND

Why weepest thou more yet? O me, which are dreams, Which are deeds of my life mid the things I remember?

MASTER OLIVER

Dost thou remember the great council chamber, O my king, and the lords there gathered together With drawn anxious faces one fair morning of summer, And myself in their midst, who would move thee to speech?

KING PHARAMOND

A brawl I remember, some wordy debating, Whether my love should be brought to behold me.

Sick was I at heart, little patience I had.

MASTER OLIVER

Hast thou memory yet left thee, how an hour thereafter We twain lay together in the midst of the pleasance 'Neath the lime-trees, nigh the pear-tree, beholding the conduit?

KING PHARAMOND

Fair things I remember of a long time thereafter-- Of thy love and thy faith and our gladness together

MASTER OLIVER

And the thing that we talked of, wilt thou tell me about it?

KING PHARAMOND

We twain were to wend through the wide world together Seeking my love--O my heart! is she living?

MASTER OLIVER

G.o.d wot that she liveth as she hath lived ever.

KING PHARAMOND

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