SCENE V |
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Ursula's cottage.
Ursula (Looking through open door) | |
Who is it coming under the trees? A man in the Prince's livery dressed! He fills my heart with strange alarm! |
Enter a Forester.
Forester | |
Is this the tenant Gottlieb's farm? |
Ursula | |
This is his farm and I his wife. |
Forester | |
News from the Prince! |
Ursula | |
Of death or life? |
Forester | |
Your daughter lives, and the Prince is well. You will learn, ere long, how it all befell. Her heart for a moment never failed: But when they reached Salerno's gate, The Prince's nobler self prevailed, And saved her for a nobler fate. |
Ursula | |
If the loud cry of a mother's heart Can ever ascend to where thou art, Into thy blessed hands and holy, Receive my prayer of praise and thanksgiving, Our child who was dead again is living. O bring me to her; for mine eyes Virgin, who lovest the poor and lowly, |
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