READ STUDY GUIDE: Act II, scenes i–iv |
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Act II, Scene ii:
A Room in the Palace.
A Room in the Palace.
| [Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, and Attendants.] |
| DUKE FREDERICK: |
| It cannot be: some villains of my court |
| Are of consent and sufferance in this. |
| FIRST LORD: |
| I cannot hear of any that did see her. |
| The ladies, her attendants of her chamber, |
| Saw her a-bed; and in the morning early |
| They found the bed untreasur'd of their mistress. |
| SECOND LORD: |
| My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft |
| Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing. |
| Hesperia, the princess' gentlewoman, |
| Confesses that she secretly o'erheard |
| Your daughter and her cousin much commend |
| The parts and graces of the wrestler |
| That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles; |
| And she believes, wherever they are gone, |
| That youth is surely in their company. |
| DUKE FREDERICK: |
| Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither: |
| If he be absent, bring his brother to me, |
| I'll make him find him: do this suddenly; |
| And let not search and inquisition quail |
| To bring again these foolish runaways. |
| [Exeunt.] |
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