The Poetical Works of John Keats/Otho the Great. A Tragedy/Act 5 Scene 3
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Scene III.—An inner Court of the Castle.
Enter Sigifred, Gonfred, and Theodore, meeting.
1st Knight. Was ever such a night?
Sigifred.What horrors more?
Things unbelieved one hour, so strange they are,
The next hour stamps with credit.
Things unbelieved one hour, so strange they are,
The next hour stamps with credit.
1st Knight.Your last news?
Gonfred. After the page's story of the death
Of Albert and Duke Conrad?
Of Albert and Duke Conrad?
Sigifred.And the return
Of Ludolph with the Princess.
Of Ludolph with the Princess.
Gonfred.No more, save
Prince Gersa's freeing Abbot Ethelbert,
And the sweet lady, fair Erminia,
From prison.
Prince Gersa's freeing Abbot Ethelbert,
And the sweet lady, fair Erminia,
From prison.
1st Knight. Where are they now? Hast yet heard?
Gonfred. With the sad Emperor they are closeted;
I saw the three pass slowly up the stairs,
The lady weeping, the old abbot cowl'd.
I saw the three pass slowly up the stairs,
The lady weeping, the old abbot cowl'd.
Sigifred. What next?
1st Knight. I ache to think on't.
Gonfred.'Tis with fate.
1st Knight. One while these proud towers are hush'd as death.
Gonfred. The next our poor Prince fills the arched rooms
With ghastly ravings.
With ghastly ravings.
Sigifred.I do fear his brain.
Gonfred. I will see more. Bear you so stout a heart?
[Exeunt into the Castle.
[Exeunt into the Castle.