"Is the King not here yet?" "Hush!" "He is still not here." " And the Queen?" " She is sick at heart, but conceals it." "Her star is setting." "Henry's volatile heart burns with a new love." "Wretched soul, perhaps she is reserved for greater shame and misery." "She has asked for me more urgently than usual." "She..." "Why?" "My heart is pounding." "What doubts arise within me!" "In the presence of my victim my heart loses all its courage." "O love, make me deaf to remorse or stifle yourself in my breast." "I have never seen a company so sad and silent." "Even you, who used to be so happy, are unable to conjure up a smile." "And who could appear untroubled when they see their Queen distressed?" "It is true, I am distressed;" "I don't know why." "Some strange, restless agitation has robbed me of my peace for some days." "Poor thing!" "I tremble at her every word!" "Where is Smeaton?" "Your Majesty!" "Draw near." "Will you not enliven my court for a while with your music until the King arrives?" "Breathe again, my heart!" "Ladies, to your places." "Inspire me, love." "Oh, do not try to force your features to a feigned joy;" "your sadness is beautiful, like your beautiful smile." "Thus is the dawn lovely while yet wreathed in clouds." "The melancholy moon is beautiful in its pallor." "He who sees you so silent and abstracted believes you a simple young girl sighing over her first love." "And the crown set upon your head all forgotten, he sighs with you and feels as though he were that first love." "That first love which..." "Stop, oh, stop!" " Your Highness!" " Oh, heaven!" "She is upset and troubled!" "O artless boy." "how you have shaken my heart!" "The ashes of my first love are still warm!" "Had I not opened my heart to another love," "I should not now be so wretched in my empty splendour!" "But I think the night is nearly over." "Dawn is about to break." "Gentlemen, you may leave." "It is pointless to expect the King to come now." "Let us go, Seymour." "What is troubling you?" "If only you could read my innermost thoughts!" "No one has the gift of seeing into my sad heart, harsh fate condemns me to sigh alone." "Oh, if ever the splendour of a royal throne should tempt you, remember my anguish, do not let yourself be seduced by it." "I haven't the courage to speak." "Oh, those words of hers!" "How they struck my heart!" "Could I possibly have betrayed myself, given myself away?" "Could she have read the guilt in my face?" "But no, she pressed me tenderly to her breast;" "she doesn't realize she has embraced a serpent." "If I could only step back from the edge of this abyss, if I could undo the past." "Alas, my fate is sealed, as fixed in heaven as the Day of Judgement." "Here is the King." "Are you nervous?" "Yes, I am." "What is she doing?" " She is resting." " I can't rest." "Do you think I can?" "Let this be the last of our secret meetings, the last, Sire, I beg of you." "And so it shall be." "From now on we must meet in the full light of day." "Heaven and earth must know I love you!" "Never." "I want to hide my shame deep in the bowels of the earth." "The love of Henry is something to glory in." "And so it was for Anne in the eyes of all England." "After her marriage it was, only after her marriage." "And this is the way Seymour loves me?" "And is this how the King loves me?" "Ungrateful girl, what do you want, then?" "Love." "And my good name." "Your good name!" "Yes, you shall have it, and such as shall have no worldly equal." "All my glory, all my glory shall reflect on you." "Seymour shall have no rival, just as the sun has none." "My good name kneels before the altar." "Anywhere else shame lies in store for me." "But that altar is forbidden me;" "heaven knows it and the King knows it." "Oh, if it is true that the King cares for me, he will care still more for my honour." "Very well, I understand you." "Oh, heaven!" "Sire!" "I understand you." "Are you so angry?" "I am angry and hurt." "Sire!" " You only love the King." " I!" "Your only interest is the throne." "Anne too offered me her love, dreaming of the English throne." "She too aspired to the crown of the haughty Aragonese." "It was hers at last; but scarcely was it hers than it wavered on her head." "To her ruin, to her sorrow, it tempted the heart of another woman." "Oh, but I did not offer you this heart which you now so wrongly accuse." "My King stole it from me, let my King give it back!" "I shall be more wretched than Anne Boleyn, more to be pitied." "I shall experience the misery of a divorce without having wronged a husband." " Are you leaving me?" " I must." "Wait." "I can't." "Listen to me:" "I command it." "The marriage altar is already being prepared for you:" "husband, sceptre and throne shall be yours." "Heaven!" "And Anne?" " I loathe her." " Sire!" " The day of retribution is here!" " But what is her crime?" "The very blackest." "She gave me a heart that was not hers to give." "She deceived me before she was my wife;" "as my wife, she continued to deceive me." " And her vows?" " The King shall dissolve them." "By what means?" "I alone know that." "But how?" "I alone know that." "Ah, I dare not pursue what they are;" "my heavy heart will not permit it." "But may I be allowed to hope that they will not be cruel." "Calm yourself." "Do not let a royal husband cost me still greater remorse, for pity's sake!" "Reassure your troubled heart, calm all your cares in your King." "Let him see you happier from now on in the love that makes you his." "Who is this?" "My dear Percy, you, in England?" "I am called back, my friend, by a sign from Henry." "And my plan is to present myself before him on his way to the hunt." "After such long exile to breathe the old air under native skies is sweet to other hearts;" "to mine it is bitter." "My dear Percy, sorrow. has not changed you so much that I could not recognize you immediately." "My suffering is not the kind to show itself in the face:" "it is all gathered deep in my heart." "Dear friend, I dare not enquire after your sister." "She is Queen." "Her only happiness lies in that." "Then was the rumour true?" "Is she unhappy?" "And the King changed?" "Does love ever stay happy?" "You are right." "Her love lives deprived of hope, as mine does." "Not so loud." "What do I have to fear?" "From the day that, having lost her, I went despairing into exile, from the day I crossed the sea my death began." "For me all light was spent;" "I kept myself apart from living men." "Every country I stopped in seemed like my grave." "The hunt is already meeting." "Quiet." "Someone will hear you." "Hallo!" "Bring the pages and attendants over here quickly." "Position the hounds." "Saddle the horses." "The King rides forth more eager than ever today." "And Anne, too?" "Calm yourself, Richard!" "Ah!" "I felt thus in the smiling days of my first happy love:" "my heart beat quickly when I was to see her again." "Merciful heaven, give me back but one of those sweet and tender moments, then take my life from me, for I would die of happiness." "Awake so early today and torn from your rest?" "My wish to see you was stronger than my desire for rest." "Many days have now passed since I enjoyed my lord's sight." "I have many grave cares on my mind." "Yet my thoughts have continually been focused on you." "Never for an instant have I taken my watchful eye off you." "You here, Percy!" "Heavens, who is that?" "Richard!" "Come closer." "I tremble." "You have been very prompt." "A single instant's delay, Sire, in exhibiting a grateful spirit" "in another might have appeared a fault;" "to me it would have seemed a crime." "The hand that returns me from exile, to both country and ancestral roof," "I kiss devotedly." "Not Henry's hand." "For some time now I have been assured of your innocence by one who was reared with you and grew up by your side and knows the sincerity of your soul:" "in short." "Anne." "Anne!" "Ah, do not betray me, my heart." "You, Your Majesty!" "And is it really true that you showed concern for me?" "You?" "The entire realm believed you innocent and spoke on your behalf." "And I believed you innocent because you seemed so to her." "The whole realm, believe me," "in vain went surety for you." "Ah, Your Majesty!" "Oh, heaven!" "Rise!" "He's courting ruin!" "Oh, dear God!" "He's courting ruin!" " Harvey." " My lord." "I felt his tears fall on my hand." "A searing flame consumes my heart!" "It is up to you to ensure that my grand design does not miscarry." "Keep their every step and every word under constant surveillance." "She remembered me when I was far away;" "she could not bear my exile." "My heart forgets all its anguish:" "I am a new man and hope again." "Restrain yourself, madman; your heart's confusion is written in your face." "Now that you have returned to your native shores and are fully pardoned" "I very much hope you will remain at Court among my most loyal servants." "Sire, I am of a brooding nature, marked for a retired existence;" "I wouldn't know..." "No, no, I wish it." "Rochford, I entrust him to your care." "Now let us leave for the hunt." "Goodbye, Anne." "I am beside myself." "Your heart's confusion is clearly written in your face." "Let us go." "This day, which has dawned for us with such bright and favourable auspices, this day will blaze with happiest successes crowned!" "May it not be darkened for me when the sun sets in the heavens." "May it not be darkened for me when the sun sets in the heavens." "Friendly fate will drive a different prey into my snares." "The place is deserted." "Her ladies are about their business elsewhere." "But if one of them were to see me here, she would know that even in these inner apartments" "Anne sometimes invites me to play at her gatherings." "This dear picture of her which I stole must be replaced before my daring is discovered." "One kiss, one last kiss, beloved features." "Farewell, beauty that rested next to my heart and seemed to beat in time with it." "Oh, it seemed as if by some spell you responded to my longing;" "that every tear that fell awoke a sigh in you." "Seeing this, my heart took courage, and filled with hope and desire it revealed to you the hungry passion it dare not reveal to her." "I can hear a noise." "Someone is approaching these rooms." "I have stayed too long." "Stop, stop." "You go too far, you are too insistent, brother." "Just for a moment be prepared to hear him." "You don't run any risk, believe me." "Whereas you would certainly run one, and a grave one, if by your harshness you caused his grief to exceed the bounds of reason." "Alas!" "And I was responsible for his return!" "Well then, bring him to me." "And keep careful watch that only those approach us who are completely loyal to me." "Rely on me." "I can't escape." "I have been weak!" "I should have steadfastly refused ever to see him again." "Oh, my common sense advises me in vain;" "my cowardly heart will not listen." "Here he is." "I am trembling and turn to ice." "Anne!" "Richard!" "We must be brief and speak carefully and softly." "Have you come here to fling my broken promise in my face?" "You can see" "I have more than paid for it." "I was ambitious;" "I wanted a crown, and I got a crown of thorns." "Seeing you unhappy, my anger disappears." "You see my forehead lined with suffering;" "I forgive you for it." "I feel that, by your side, I could dismiss the griefs of the past, just as the shipwrecked pilot forgets the waves when he reaches the shore." "My storms are calmed by you, all my happiness comes from you." "Wretched man!" "What hope lures you on now?" "Don't you know that I am a wife?" "That I am Queen?" "Oh, don't say it!" "I must not, I will not know it." "To me you are Anne, only Anne." "And am I not your same Richard?" "He who loved you so much?" "Who first taught you to love?" "And doesn't the King hate you?" "He hates me..." "It is true." "As he hates you, I still love you, just as I loved you in your humble state." "With me forget the neglect and cruelty of your ungrateful husband." "Do not put a wicked lord before a lover who adores you." "Ah, you don't realize... how holy, how terrifying are my bonds." "Beside me on the throne sit suspicion and terror!" "Oh, if it is true that you love me, never again speak to me of love." "No, no, Richard." "Anne, I love you!" "Cruel woman!" "Let tomorrow's dawn find you away from England." "Ah, let it find me dead and buried or still with you." " Go!" " No." " Richard!" "Buried!" "Ah, take pity on my fear, on the horror you see me in;" "give way to my prayers and tears;" "let land and sea separate us." "Look for some happy heart elsewhere for whom love is not a crime." "Take pity!" "I will fall lifeless at your feet, pierced by my sword if you ask it." "But let me stay, if only to sigh." "Near to you, suffering and pain will be happiness for me." "Someone within these walls will hear you." "I will leave, but tell me first:" "shall I see you again?" "Promise me; swear it!" "No, never again." "Never again!" "Then this is the answer to your vow!" "Ah!" "What are you doing?" " No!" " Pitiless man!" "Stop!" "Oh, God!" " Keep away!" " Stop!" "I am ruined." "Someone is coming." "I can't take any more." " Ah, sister!" " She has fainted." " The King is coming." " The King!" "What do I see?" "Weapons drawn, in these rooms!" "Swords out in my palace!" "Hey, guards!" "Adverse fate!" "Whatever has happened?" "What shall I say?" "What shall I do?" "Oh, fate!" "Everyone is silent, everyone is trembling!" "What mystery, what misconduct was afoot in here just now?" "I can read from your looks already," "I can read there that my disgrace is complete." "The entire realm is witness that this woman has betrayed the King." "Sire, ah, Sire, it isn't true." "I swear it at your feet." "How dare you!" "So expert in treachery already, boy?" "Kill me if I am lying." "Naked, unarmed, I offer you my breast." "So expert!" "Yes, naked and unarmed I offer you my breast" " What jewel is that?" " Oh, heaven!" " What do I see?" "I can hardly believe my eyes!" "Here is complete proof of her foul treachery." "Anne!" "What anguish!" "My fear!" "Where am I?" "See, here is your treachery!" "Where am I?" "O my lord!" "Written on your face" "I see your suspicion." "But I beg you, for pity's sake, not to condemn me, O King." "Let my overwrought heart regain its composure a while." "Here in my hand is proof of your heinous crime." "Your tears won't help you;" "get out of my sight." "It would be better for you if you could die now." "Ah!" "I am the one who has ruined her, who has brought her misfortunes to a head." "How can I bear to be near the unhappy woman, O heaven." "Let my overwrought heart regain its composure." "Get out of my sight." "It would be better for me if I could die now." "Let them all be taken into solitary confinement." "All?" " Yes." " O Sire..." " Stand aside!" " Just one word..." " Withdraw!" " O Sire!" " Stand aside!" "Her death is decreed." "Hear me!" "Not I." "Only your judges must hear your defence." "Judges!" "For Anne!" "Ah, wretched me!" "Ah, my fate is sealed when my accuser can condemn me." "I must succumb to the power of a tyrannical law." "My fate is sealed;" "any attempt to escape is vain." "Neither earthly skill nor human endeavour can help me now." "The woman who shares my throne can have no earthly spot of sin." "Stand aside!" "Go!" "Your death grieves me but death I shall bring you." "Ah, do not condemn me!" "Listen to me..." " Just a word..." " Stand aside." "Go!" "Ah, my fate is sealed when my accuser can condemn me." "I must succumb to the power of a tyrannical law." "Ah, my fate is sealed." "But my name will be cleared." "Neither earthly skill nor human endeavour can help me now." "Death already grips my heart, and yet I still live." "Where now are the fawning mobs that used to flock around her in the days of her prosperity?" "'" "Even Seymour has remained aloof." "But we, unhappy Queen, shall always be with you, whether it is your vindication that approaches or your final tragedy." "Fate has left you few, but loving, hearts." "Here she comes." "Pale and distraught she can barely drag her feet." "Take heart, your Majesty." "Put your trust in heaven." "Tears have an end," "Virtue cannot perish." "Fate has left you few, but loving, hearts." "Tears have an end, virtue cannot perish." "My faithful girls, the only comfort left me in my misfortune." "All my hope is placed in heaven, in heaven alone." "Earth holds no sanctuary for me in my downfall." " What news, Harvey?" " Your Majesty!" "The bitter commission pains me which the Lords have assigned me." "Well?" "Speak." "These ladies are called to the Lords' presence." "Be witnesses to my innocence." "My loving friends..." "Oh, dreadful day!" "Go with him." "God, thou who seest into my heart," "I turn to thee, O God." "Whether I have deserved this shame be thou the judge, O God." "The poor woman is weeping." "Oh, how can I meet her gaze?" "Ah, yes, the anguish of the unfortunate Aragonese must not go unavenged and thy stern judgement intends terrible punishment for me." "But it is too great." "O my Queen." "Seymour!" "You have come back to me!" "You have not forgotten me?" "Rise." "What is this I see?" "You turn pale!" "You are trembling?" "Are you bringing me some fresh misfortune?" "Dreadful, extreme." "Can I bring you joy?" "Ah, no." "Hear me." "The plots devised against you are such that you are lost" "At all costs the King means to break the wretched ties which bind you to him." "Your life at least, if not your royal name, at least save your life!" "How?" "Explain yourself." "I tremble to say it." "And yet I must." "If you confess to being guilty, it will divorce you from the King and save you from death." "What are you saying?" "Fate, which pursues you, leaves you no other means of escape." "And you can advise this?" "You, my Seymour!" "Do it!" "For pity's sake!" "That I should buy my life with my shame?" "And you, Seymour..." "You can advise me to do this?" "Do you want both shame and death?" "Oh, heaven, your Majesty, give way!" "The King advises you to, and the wretched woman implores you whom Henry's love has destined for the throne." "Who is she?" "Do you know her?" "Tell me." "Did she have the audacity to counsel an act of cowardice?" "Cowardice to her Queen!" "Speak!" "Who is this woman?" "A poor unhappy creature." "And she has made me the same." "May God's avenging arm fall heavily upon her." "Oh, hear me!" "Let her base heart be broken, as mine has been." "Oh, forgive her!" "May her coveted crown prove a crown of thorns." "For pity's sake, hear me." "Let dread and suspicion lie on the pillow of the royal bed." "Between her and her guilty husband let my menacing spectre rise." "And may the King, still more cruel, deny her the axe granted to me." "Such a cruel sentence!" "I shall die." "Oh, stop!" " Stop, for pity's sake." " No, my spectre..." "Stop, for pity's sake!" "My menacing spectre..." "Stop!" "You!" "What do I hear?" "Yes!" "The traitress is here, prostrate at your feet" "My rival!" "But tortured by remorse, and wretched." "Get away from me!" "What do I hear?" "Ah, forgive me!" "You!" "My rival!" "Oh, God!" "You?" "Seymour?" "My rival?" "Forgive me!" "I am punished by my heart." "Inexperienced, deceived..." " She!" "My rival!" " Wretched, I was seduced." "She!" "Oh, God!" "I love Henry, and I blush for it." "Oh, this love is torture for me." "I groan and weep, and yet my tears do not stifle my love." "Get up." "The only guilty one is the man who has aroused such a passion in you." "Go, unhappy girl, and take Boleyn's pardon with you." "In my blind and furious grief I hailed down dreadful punishments upon you." "Now I ask God's mercy for you, and it will be granted me." "Let my love and pity remain with you in this farewell." "Oh, your forgiveness is worse than the anger I was afraid of." "I am guilty, and as punishment for my crime you bequeath me a throne." "A just God awaits me there, who will not pardon me." "Your embrace is the first of the torments He will visit upon me." "Poor unhappy girl, you are not guilty." " A just God awaits me there," " Now I ask God's mercy for you," " who will not pardon me." " and it will be granted me." "Well?" "Which of the accused has been before the judges?" "Smeaton." "Could the young man have revealed some crime?" "The result of the cross-examination is not yet known." "He is still locked up." "Ah, heaven forbid that his weak and inexperienced heart might have allowed itself to be seduced or overcome by either hope or fear." "God forbid he should ever forget that his accuser is the King." "Look, here is Harvey." "Bring in Anne and Percy." "What is happening?" "Smeaton has confessed." "Could the fool have denounced Anne?" "Harvey, tell us!" "Has he denounced Anne?" "He revealed a crime that made us shudder and blush." "She is lost, poor woman!" " It made us blush with shame." " The King is her accuser." "Withdraw, the King is coming." "What brings you from the assembly?" "My presence would now be inappropriate." "The first blow has fallen;" "the man who struck it now withdraws." "How easily Smeaton fell into the trap!" "Let the blind young fool return to his cell." "And let him still believe, until the very hour of my vengeance, that he has saved Anne's life." "She is coming." "And Percy is being brought in under guard." "I must avoid them." "Wait, Henry" "Wait and hear me." "The Council will hear you." "I throw myself at your feet." "Kill me, but do not expose me, Sire, to the shame of a trial." "See that my royal name is respected." "Did you respect your royal rank?" "You were the wife of Henry and you lowered yourself to a Percy." "But you did not find it beneath you to make yourself the rival of this despised Percy." "You stole his beloved from him." "Felon!" "How dare you!" "I dare speak the truth to you." "Listen." "In a short while I shall appear before a tribunal that is holier and far more terrible than yours!" "I swear by this that she has not wronged you, that she was sending me away, that she burned with indignation at my presumption." "She considered a low-born page more worthy of her love." "He has confessed it and he cites a hundred witnesses." "Stop!" "Stop!" "At this iniquitous accusation I reassume my dignity and loudly proclaim you, Sire, Smeaton's suborner." " Yes, you are!" " Brazen woman!" "I defy all your might." "It can bring me death but not dishonour." "My crime is to have set aside for the throne a noble heart like Percy's," "to have believed it supreme happiness to be consort to a king." "Oh, supreme joy!" "You never harboured so vile an affection," "I am sure of it, yes, I am sure." "And with that certitude I gladly await my fate." "But you will live, yes, you will live." "What do I hear?" "Treacherous pair, you will both die." "Who can save you from death?" "Justice can." "Justice!" "We are man and wife." " Man and wife!" "You!" " What are you saying?" "How dare you!" "I reclaim my rights:" "let her be restored to me." "So you are his wife!" " I?" " Are you his wife?" " Can you deny it?" " I?" "Well?" "Alas!" "From your earliest years you were mine and you know it." "You left me and I, wretched man, loved you even while you were unfaithful." "The man who stole you from me is taking away your honour and your life." "I open my arms to you, and life and honour I will restore to you." "Oh, what proof you give me..." "This useless deception is clear to me." "...of your generous heart!" "I curse the day I was untrue and left you for that cruel wretch!" "You know you were mine." "Just heaven has punished me for the faith I betrayed." "But do not believe, guilty pair, that I will ever contradict you." "I found nothing on the throne but distress and horror." "Life and honour I will restore to you." "The plot is perfectly clear." "Your suffering will be the crueler;" "your torments will be the greater." "Guards, take them before the Council." " Do you still insist?" " Let the Council hear us." "Another woman more deserving of my love shall ascend the English throne." "Your name will be hated, disgraced and rejected by everyone." "Your name and your blood will be hated, disgraced and rejected." "Ah!" "May no other woman ever learn how fatal your gift is!" "May England never hear how wickedly Anne has been persecuted!" "She was Percy's wife before she was Henry's!" "Percy's wife!" "No, never." "That is a lie to extricate her from the terrible law that condemns her as my guilty spouse." "And if it is true, a no less terrible law will catch her and involve her daughter too in ruin." "Sire..." "Come, Seymour, you are Queen." "O Sire, my remorse brings me to your feet." "Your remorse!" "Bitter, extreme, horrible!" "I have seen Anne and heard her." "My heart aches for her tears." "Show mercy to her, and at the same time, to me." "I will not be the cause of her death, nor can I be." "Let my King take my last farewell." "I am more than your King." "I am your lover, the lover who had your promise and who will soon receive before the altar promises more sacred." "Oh, that I had never made those terrible promises that have been my downfall!" "To expiate them, Sire," "I shall go away to some remote refuge where no living being shall see me," "Are you mad?" "Where has such a fantastic idea come from, my lady?" "Do you hope, by going away, to save Anne's life?" "I hate her even more now that she so upsets and troubles you, now that she is even stifling your love." "Oh, it isn't stifled." "It consumes my heart." "For this untamed passion which I put before my virtue, for these bitter pangs, for the tears it costs me," "hear my prayer." "Don't let me be the cause of Anne's death." "In the eyes of heaven and earth don't make me even guiltier." "Foolish girl!" "You do not realize..." "But control yourself: the Court has risen." "Ah!" "Hear me." "Control yourself!" "By my tears, by my sufferings, hear me." "The Lords have unanimously dissolved the royal marriage." "Anne, an unfaithful wife, is condemned to death, and with her everyone who was accomplice or instigator thereto." "Supreme judge, to you the sentence is submitted." "The only hope for these wretched souls lies in the King's clemency." "Merciful kings are an image of heaven here below." "I shall consider it." " Give way!" " Foolish girl, you do not realize..." "By these tears!" "Please, don't let Anne die." "Merciful kings are an image of heaven here below." "Justice... is the foremost virtue of kings." "Remember that the eyes of heaven and earth are watching you;" "that every heart has its failings to make us merciful to others." "Let Henry listen to the promptings of pity even if the king is determined to punish." "Remember that the eyes of heaven and earth are watching you;" "that every heart has its failings to make us merciful to others." "Let Henry listen to the promptings of pity even if the king is determined to punish." "Are you too condemned to death, you who are innocent of any crime?" "My crime is a serious one:" "I am Anne's brother." "Oh, what a terrible abyss I have drawn you into." "I deserved it." "For it was I who, spurred on by blind ambition, induced Anne to aspire to the throne." "My dear friend, your anguish adds to mine." "Ah, if I could hope you might be spared, that hope would make my death less sad and bitter to me." "Let us part like men." "Someone is coming." "I am the bearer of good tidings." "The King in his mercy grants you both your lives." "Only us!" "What of Anne?" "She must submit to her just punishment." "Does he think me so base as to want to live, guilty as I am, when she, who is innocent, must die?" "Go back and tell him that I refuse his shameful offer." "What is this?" "And you?" "I am ready for execution." "You must live, I beg you, you who are less wretched and less sad." "Look for a land that offers safe refuge to an innocent man." "Seek a shore where you will not be forbidden to pray for us." "Someone must remain on earth to weep over our fate." "Oh Percy, I am no less steadfast, no less constant than you." "Decide." "You heard me: death." "Death." "Let them take leave of one another." " My dear friend!" "Farewell!" " You must live!" " No, no, farewell." " My dear friend!" "To death!" " To death..." " Yes." "My heart is relieved by the sight of your constancy." "I was only afraid for your suffering, my only pain was the thought of your pain." "The last hour that is approaching we can both defy for, here on earth, we leave no one, neither fear nor desire." "Who can watch her dry-eyed, in such anguish, in such grief, and not feel their heart breaking?" "Now as silent and motionless as cold stone," "now pacing rapidly up and down," "her face at one moment sad and pale, at the next breaking into a smile, she passes through as many different states as, in her delirium and her grief, thoughts and affections arise in her." "Who can watch her dry-eyed, in such anguish, in such grief, and not feel their heart breaking?" "Are you weeping?" "Why these tears?" "This is a wedding day." "The King is waiting for me." "The altar is decked with flowers." "Quickly, give me my white mantle." "Adorn my head with my wreath of roses." "Don't let Percy know of it." "The King commands it." "Oh, dismal memory" "Who is that crying?" "Who mentioned Percy?" "Don't let me see him." "I must hide from him." "It is no good." "He is coming." "He is reproaching me." "He is accusing me." "Oh. forgive me!" "I am unhappy." "Take me away from this terrible misery" "You are smiling?" "Oh, what joy!" "I shall not die here forsaken!" "You are smiling?" "Percy?" "Oh, what joy!" "Take me back to the lovely castle where I was born, to the green plane trees and the quiet river that still murmurs our sighs." "There, let me forget all past anguish, give me back just one day of my early years, give me back just one day of our love." "What a gloomy sound is that?" "What do I see?" "Harvey!" "The guards!" "Go and fetch the prisoners from their cells." "O heaven, what a moment to have awoken me from my delirium!" "What have you awoken me to?" "Anne!" "My brother!" "And you, Percy!" "You are going to your deaths because of me!" "I alone brought you to your ruin: curse me." " Smeaton!" " Traitor!" "Yes, I am!" "Let me take that name with me to the grave." "I allowed myself to be misled by the King." "I denounced you believing I was saving your life." "An insane desire, a secret hope, cherished in my heart for a whole year, spurred me on to lie." "Curse me." "Smeaton!" "Come here." "Get up." "What are you doing?" "Why are you not tuning your lute?" "Who has broken its strings?" " Anne!" " What are you saying?" "She is delirious again." "They give out a dull sound like the broken groan of a dying heart." "It is my wounded heart sighing its last prayer to heaven." "Listen, all of you." "Oh, cruel martyrdom!" "She is delirious." "Heaven grant me respite at last from my long suffering;" "and let these last breaths at least be full of hope." "Merciful heaven, prolong her final delirium." "Let her blessed soul wake again in thy bosom." "Sounds of rejoicing?" "What is happening?" "Speak." "Where am I?" "Tell me." "Well?" "The people happily acclaim the new Queen." "Silence!" "No more!" "Anne's blood alone is needed to complete the crime, and it will be shed." "Heaven, spare her wounded heart this blow;" "it cannot take it." "Wicked pair, at this terrible moment" "I shall not call down supreme vengeance." "My grave lies open for me;" "let me go into it with a pardon on my lips." "May it win me mercy and favour in the sight of a compassionate God." "Heaven, spare her wounded heart..." "Silence, no more!" "...this blow which it cannot take." "To complete the crime only my blood is needed, and it will be shed." "One victim is already sacrificed."