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Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards - Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards
A Tragedy
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4064066177980
Table of Contents
PERSONS REPRESENTED
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III.
ACT IV.
ACT V.
LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1899
PERSONS REPRESENTED
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Albovine
, King of the Lombards.
almachildes
, a young Lombard warrior.
Narsetes
, an old leader and counsellor.
Rosamund
, Queen of the Lombards.
Hildegard
, a noble Lombard maiden.
Scene
, VERONA.
Time, June 573
ACT I.
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A hall in the Palace: a curtain drawn midway across it.
Enter
Albovine
and
Narsetes
.
ALBOVINE.
This is no matter of the wars: in war
Thy king, old friend, is less than king of thine,
And comrade less than follower. Hast thou loved
Ever—loved woman, not as chance may love,
But as thou hast loved thy sword or friend—or me?
Thou hast shewn me love more stout of heart than death.
Death quailed before thee when thou gav’st me life,
Borne down in battle.
NARSETES.
Woman? As I love
Flowers in their season. A rose is but a rose.
ALBOVINE.
Dost thou know rose from thistle or bindweed? Man,
Speak as our north wind speaks, if harsh and hard—
Truth.
NARSETES.
White I know from red, and dark from bright,
And milk from blood in hawthorn-flowers: but not
Woman from woman.
ALBOVINE.
How should God our Lord,
Except his eye see further than his world?
For women ever make themselves anew,
Meseems, to match and mock the maker. Friend,
If ever I were friend of thine in fight,
Speak, and I bid thee not speak truth: I know
Thy tongue knows nought but truth or silence.
NARSETES.
Is it
A king’s or friend’s part, king, to bid his friend
Speak what he knows not? Speak then thou, that I
May find thy will and answer it.
ALBOVINE.
I am fain
And loth to tell thee how it wrings my heart
That now this hard-eyed heavy southern sun
Hath wrought its will upon us all a year
And yet I know not if my wife be mine.
NARSETES.
Thy meanest man at arms had known ere dawn
Blinked on his bridal birthday.
ALBOVINE.
Did I bid thee
Mock, and forget me for thy friend—I say not,
King? Is thy heart so light and lean a thing,
So loose in faith and faint in love? I bade thee
Stand to me, help me, hold my hand in thine
And give my heart back answer. This it is,
Old friend and fool, that gnaws my life