No More Learning

_ How so?
_Ida. _ A cloud comes o'er his blue eyes suddenly,
Yet he says nothing.

_Jos. _ It is nothing: all men,
Especially in these dark troublous times,
Have much to think of.

_Ida. _ But I cannot think
Of aught save him.

_Jos. _ Yet there are other men,
In the world's eye, as goodly. There's, for instance,
The young Count Waldorf, who scarce once withdrew
His eyes from yours to-day.

_Ida. _ I did not see him, 60
But Ulric. Did you not see at the moment
When all knelt, and I wept? and yet, methought,
Through my fast tears, though they were thick and warm,
I saw him smiling on me.

_Jos.
_ I could not
See aught save Heaven, to which my eyes were raised,
Together with the people's.

_Ida. _ I thought too
Of Heaven, although I looked on Ulric.

_Jos. _ Come,
Let us retire! they will be here anon,
Expectant of the banquet. We will lay
Aside these nodding plumes and dragging trains. 70

_Ida. _ And, above all, these stiff and heavy jewels,
Which make my head and heart ache, as both throb
Beneath their glitter o'er my brow and zone.
Dear mother, I am with you.

_Enter_ COUNT SIEGENDORF, _in full dress, from the
solemnity_, and LUDWIG.

_Sieg. _ Is he not found?

_Lud. _ Strict search is making every where; and if
The man be in Prague, be sure he will be found.

_Sieg.