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Mary Stuart
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2017
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I have no confidence in this court puppet —
I can effect her rescue, I alone;
Be danger, honor, and the prize my own.
[As he is going, PAULET meets him.
SCENE VII
MORTIMER, PAULET.
PAULET
What said the queen to you?
MORTIMER
'Twas nothing, sir;
Nothing of consequence —
PAULET (looking at him earnestly)
Hear, Mortimer!
It is a false and slippery ground on which
You tread. The grace of princes is alluring,
Youth loves ambition – let not yours betray you.
MORTIMER
Was it not yourself that brought me to the court?
PAULET
Oh, would to God I had not done as much!
The honor of our house was never reaped
In courts – stand fast, my nephew – purchase not
Too dear, nor stain your conscience with a crime.
MORTIMER
What are these fears? What are you dreaming of?
PAULET
How high soever the queen may pledge herself
To raise you, trust not her alluring words.
[The spirit of the world's a lying spirit,
And vice is a deceitful, treacherous friend.]
She will deny you, if you listen to her;
And, to preserve her own good name, will punish
The bloody deed, which she herself enjoined.
MORTIMER
The bloody deed! —
PAULET
Away, dissimulation! —
I know the deed the queen proposed to you.
She hopes that your ambitious youth will prove
More docile than my rigid age. But say,
Have you then pledged your promise, have you?
MORTIMER
Uncle!
PAULET
If you have done so, I abandon you,
And lay my curse upon you —
LEICESTER (entering)
Worthy sir!
I with your nephew wish a word. The queen
Is graciously inclined to him; she wills
That to his custody the Scottish queen
Be with full powers intrusted. She relies
On his fidelity.
PAULET
Relies! – 'tis well —
LEICESTER
What say you, sir?
PAULET
Her majesty relies
On him; and I, my noble lord, rely
Upon myself, and my two open eyes.
[Exit
SCENE VIII
LEICESTER, MORTIMER.
I can effect her rescue, I alone;
Be danger, honor, and the prize my own.
[As he is going, PAULET meets him.
SCENE VII
MORTIMER, PAULET.
PAULET
What said the queen to you?
MORTIMER
'Twas nothing, sir;
Nothing of consequence —
PAULET (looking at him earnestly)
Hear, Mortimer!
It is a false and slippery ground on which
You tread. The grace of princes is alluring,
Youth loves ambition – let not yours betray you.
MORTIMER
Was it not yourself that brought me to the court?
PAULET
Oh, would to God I had not done as much!
The honor of our house was never reaped
In courts – stand fast, my nephew – purchase not
Too dear, nor stain your conscience with a crime.
MORTIMER
What are these fears? What are you dreaming of?
PAULET
How high soever the queen may pledge herself
To raise you, trust not her alluring words.
[The spirit of the world's a lying spirit,
And vice is a deceitful, treacherous friend.]
She will deny you, if you listen to her;
And, to preserve her own good name, will punish
The bloody deed, which she herself enjoined.
MORTIMER
The bloody deed! —
PAULET
Away, dissimulation! —
I know the deed the queen proposed to you.
She hopes that your ambitious youth will prove
More docile than my rigid age. But say,
Have you then pledged your promise, have you?
MORTIMER
Uncle!
PAULET
If you have done so, I abandon you,
And lay my curse upon you —
LEICESTER (entering)
Worthy sir!
I with your nephew wish a word. The queen
Is graciously inclined to him; she wills
That to his custody the Scottish queen
Be with full powers intrusted. She relies
On his fidelity.
PAULET
Relies! – 'tis well —
LEICESTER
What say you, sir?
PAULET
Her majesty relies
On him; and I, my noble lord, rely
Upon myself, and my two open eyes.
[Exit
SCENE VIII
LEICESTER, MORTIMER.
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