THE WANDERERS
PRINCE
And where?
And where?
MAN-AT-ARMS
How can I tell?
How can I tell?
PRINCE
I know you will tell true.
I know you will tell true.
MAN-AT-ARMS
My lord, the queen, your mother, grew distraught,
And ere her time was come she crept at night
Between her watchers while they drowsed, and found
A glade among the hills that spring had kissed,
And underneath green boughs she laid her down.
My lord, the queen, your mother, grew distraught,
And ere her time was come she crept at night
Between her watchers while they drowsed, and found
A glade among the hills that spring had kissed,
And underneath green boughs she laid her down.
PRINCE
And I was born there?
And I was born there?
MAN-AT-ARMS
Aye, my lord. Below
The first faint budding bough we found you there.
Aye, my lord. Below
The first faint budding bough we found you there.
PRINCE
You should have told me this.
See, he comes near!
(To the Gypsy.) God save you, sir!
You should have told me this.
See, he comes near!
(To the Gypsy.) God save you, sir!
GYPSY
I lie within his hand.
I lie within his hand.
PRINCE
Where go you?
Where go you?
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