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Lady. How looks her countenance?

Page. So queenly, so commanding, and so noble, I shrunk at first in awe; but when she smil'd, For so she did to see me thus abash'd, Methought I could have compass'd sea and land To do her bidding.

Lady.Is she young or old?

Page. Neither, if right I guess, but she is fair; For time hath laid his hand so gently on her, As he too had been aw'd.

Lady.The foolish stripling! She has bewitch'd thee. Is she large in stature?

Page. So stately and so graceful is her form, I thought at first her stature was gigantick, But on a near approach I found, in truth, She scarcely does surpass the middle size.

Lady. What is her garb?

Page. I cannot well describe the fashion of it. She is not deck'd in any gallant trim, But seems to me clad in the usual weeds Of high habitual state; for as she moves Wide flows her robe in many a waving fold, As I have seen unfurled banners play With the soft breese.

Lady. Thine eyes deceive thee, boy, It is an apparition thou hast seen.

''Freb. (Starting from his seat, where he has been sitting during the conversation between the Lady and the'' Page.) It is an apparition he has seen. Or it is Jane De Monfort.[ hastily.