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traitor County Palurin: Without regard had to thyself or me, Unshamefastly to stain thy state and mine. But I, unhappiest, have beheld the same, And, seeing it, yet feel th'exceeding grief That slays my heart with horror of that thought: Which grief commands me to obey my rage, And justice urgeth some extreme revenge, To wreak the wrongs that have been offer'd us. But nature, that hath lock'd within thy breast Two lives, the same inclineth me to spare Thy blood, and so to keep mine own unspilt. This is that overweening love I bear To thee undutiful, and undeserved. But for that traitor, he shall surely die; For neither right nor nature doth entreat For him, that wilfully, without all awe Of gods or men, or of our deadly hate, Incurr'd the just displeasure of his king; And to be brief, I am content to know What for thyself thou canst object to us, Why thou should'st not together with him die. So to assuage the griefs that overthrow Thy father's heart. GISMUND. O king and father, humbly give her leave To plead for grace, that stands in your disgrace. Not that she recks this life,[72] for I confess I have deserv'd, when so it pleaseth you, To die the death, mine honour and my name, As you suppose, distained with reproach: And well contented shall I meet the stroke That must dissever this detested head From these lewd limbs. But this I wish were known, That now I live not for myself alone. For when I saw that neither my request, Nor the entreaty of my careful aunt, Could win your highness' pleasure to our will; "Then love, heat of the heart, life of the soul, Fed by desire, increasing by restraint," Would not endure controlment any more, But violently enforc'd my feeble heart (For who am I, alas! still to resist Such endless conflicts?) to relent and yield: Therewith I chose him for my lord and pheer, Guiscard mine Earl, that holds my love full dear. Then if it be so settled in your mind, He shall not live, because he dar'd to love Your daughter: thus I give your grace to know. Within his heart there is inclos'd my life. Therefore, O father, if that name may be Sweet to your ears, and that we may prevail By name of father, that you favour us: But otherwise, if now we cannot find That which our falsed hope did promise us; Why then proceed, and rid our trembling hearts Of these suspicions; since neither in this case His good deserts in service to your grace, Which always have been just, nor my desires,
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