Part 28 (1/2)
GEOFFREY.
Very bad. Somebody struck him.
ELEANOR.
Ay? who was that?
GEOFFREY.
Can't tell. But I heard say he had had a stroke, or you'd have heard his horn before now. Come along, then; we shall see the silk here and there, and I want my supper.
[_Exeunt_.
SCENE II.--ROSAMUND'S _Bower_.
ROSAMUND.
The boy so late; pray G.o.d, he be not lost.
I sent this Margery, and she comes not back; I sent another, and she comes not back.
I go myself--so many alleys, crossings, Paths, avenues--nay, if I lost him, now The folds have fallen from the mystery, And left all naked, I were lost indeed.
_Enter_ GEOFFREY _and_ ELEANOR.
Geoffrey, the pain thou hast put me to!
[_Seeing_ ELEANOR.
Ha, you!
How came you hither?
ELEANOR.
Your own child brought me hither!
GEOFFREY.
You said you couldn't trust Margery, and I watched her and followed her into the woods, and I lost her and went on and on till I found the light and the lady, and she says she can make you sleep o' nights.
ROSAMUND.
How dared you? Know you not this bower is secret, Of and belonging to the King of England, More sacred than his forests for the chase?
Nay, nay, Heaven help you; get you hence in haste Lest worse befall you.
ELEANOR.
Child, I am mine own self Of and belonging to the King. The King Hath divers ofs and ons, ofs and belongings, Almost as many as your true Mussulman-- Belongings, paramours, whom it pleases him To call his wives; but so it chances, child, That I am his main paramour, his sultana.
But since the fondest pair of doves will jar, Ev'n in a cage of gold, we had words of late, And thereupon he call'd my children b.a.s.t.a.r.ds.
Do you believe that you are married to him?
ROSAMUND, I _should_ believe it.
ELEANOR.
You must not believe it, Because I have a wholesome medicine here Puts that belief asleep. Your answer, beauty!
Do you believe that you are married to him?
ROSAMUND.
Geoffrey, my boy, I saw the ball you lost in the fork of the great willow over the brook. Go. See that you do not fall in. Go.
GEOFFREY.