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 That my unwillingness, my husband's love, Your high estate, nor no respect respected, Can be my help, but that your mightiness Will overbear and awe these dear regards, I bind my discontent to my content, And what I would not I'll compel I will; Provided that yourself remove those lets That stand between your highness' love and mine. Edward. Name them, fair countess, and by heaven I will. Countess. It is their lives that stand between our love That I would have choked up, my sovereign. Edward. Whose lives, my lady? Countess.My thrice loving liege, Your queen, and Salisbury my wedded husband; Who living have that title in our love That we can not bestow but by their death. Edward. Thy opposition is beyond our law. Countess. So is your desire: If the law Can hinder you to execute the one, Let it forbid you to attempt the other: I cannot think you love me as you say Unless you do make good what you have sworn. Edward. No more: thy husband and the queen shall die. Fairer thou art by far than Hero was; Beardless Leander not so strong as I: He swom an easy current for his love; But I will, through a helly spout of blood, Arrive that Sestos where my Hero lies.