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THE PRINCESS;
Receive it; and in me behold the PrinceYour countryman, affianced years agoTo the Lady Ida: here, for here she was,And thus (what other way was left) I came.'*O Sir, O Prince, I have no country; none;Tf any, this; but none. Whate'er I was Disrooted, what I am is grafted here.Affianced, Sir? love-whispers may not breathe Within this vestal limit, and how should I,Who am not mine, say, live: the thunderbolt Hangs silent; but prepare: I speak; it falls.' 'Yet pause;' I said, 'for that inscription there, I think no more of deadly lurks therein,Than in a clapper clapping in a garth,To scare the fowl from fruit: if more there be, If more and acted on, what follows? war;Your own work marr'd: for this your Academe, Whichever side be Victor, in the hallooWill topple to the trumpet down, and passWith all fair theories only made to gild
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