To let her sleep on such sharp disappointment.

Launcelot. As you will, noble lord.

[Curtain.

SCENE V.—The apartment of Guinevere—Guinevere and a lady attendant.

Guinevere

Guinevere

Guinevere. Now Unid I have seen this noble Arthur.

I spied him from my turret as he rode,

And all my heart went out in love to him,

The knight incarnate of my girlhood’s dreams.

Did’st thou notice his bearing Unid?

Unid. Yea my lady, and fairer man and nobler knight

Eye hath not seen.

Guin. His face was like the gardens when the sun

Lifts up his crimson splendor after dawn,

His bearing as the bearing of a god,

And yet as one who would be kind and loving.

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Unid. Yea, my lady, he seemed glad and fair,

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