No More Learning

_Sal. _ Is the king so soon awake?

_Sar. _ Yes, brother, and I would I had not slept;
For all the predecessors of our line
Rose up, methought, to drag me down to them.
My father was amongst them, too; but he,
I know not why, kept from me, leaving me
Between the hunter-founder of our race,
And her, the homicide and husband-killer, 180
Whom you call glorious.

_Sal. _ So I term you also,
Now you have shown a spirit like to hers.
By day-break I propose that we set forth,
And charge once more the rebel crew, who still
Keep gathering head, repulsed, but not quite quelled.

_Sar. _ How wears the night?

_Sal. _ There yet remain some hours
Of darkness: use them for your further rest.

_Sar. _ No, not to-night, if 'tis not gone: methought
I passed hours in that vision.

_Myr.
_ Scarcely one;
I watched by you: it was a heavy hour, 190
But an hour only.

_Sar. _ Let us then hold council;
To-morrow we set forth.

_Sal. _ But ere that time,
I had a grace to seek.

_Sar. _ 'Tis granted.

_Sal. _ Hear it
Ere you reply too readily; and 'tis
For _your_ ear only.

_Myr. _ Prince, I take my leave.
[Exit MYRRHA.

_Sal. _ That slave deserves her freedom.

_Sar. _ Freedom only!