Excerpt: ...reproof as it is intended. MAT.HAVYA. Very well. Rising from his seat. But stay-I don't much relish being sent to bear the brunt of her jealousy. The chances are that she will have me seized by the hair of the head and beaten to a jelly. I would as soon expose myself, after a vow of celibacy, to the seductions of a lovely nymph, as encounter the fury of a jealous woman. KING. Go, go; you can disarm her wrath by a civil speech; but give her my message. MAT.HAVYA. What must be must be, I suppose. Exit. KING. Aside ...
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Excerpt: ...reproof as it is intended. MAT.HAVYA. Very well. Rising from his seat. But stay-I don't much relish being sent to bear the brunt of her jealousy. The chances are that she will have me seized by the hair of the head and beaten to a jelly. I would as soon expose myself, after a vow of celibacy, to the seductions of a lovely nymph, as encounter the fury of a jealous woman. KING. Go, go; you can disarm her wrath by a civil speech; but give her my message. MAT.HAVYA. What must be must be, I suppose. Exit. KING. Aside. Strange! that song has filled me with a most peculiar sensation. A melancholy feeling has come over me, and I seem to yearn after some long-forgotten object of affection. Singular, indeed! but Not seldom In our happy hours of ease, When thought is still, the sight of some fair form, Or mournful fall of music breathing low, Will stir strange fancies, thrilling all the soul With a mysterious sadness, and a sense Of vague yet earnest longing. Can it be That the dim memory of events long past, Or friendships formed in other states of being74, Flits like a passing shadow o'er the spirit? Remains pensive and sad. Enter the CHAMBERLAIN75, named VATAYANA. CHAMBERLAIN. Alas! to what an advanced period of life have I attained! Even this wand betrays the lapse of years; In youthful days 'twas but a useless badge And symbol of my office; now it serves As a support to prop my tottering steps. Ah me! I feel very unwilling to announce to the King that a deputation of young hermits from the sage Kanwa has arrived, and craves an immediate audience. Certainly, his Majesty ought not to neglect a matter of sacred duty, yet I hardly like to trouble him when he has just risen from the judgment-seat. Well, well; a monarch's business is to sustain the world, and he must not expect much repose; because- Onward, for ever onward, in his car The unwearied Sun pursues his daily course, Nor tarries...
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