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words are another instance of the double sense which expresses reverence to her husband, but intends the bloody design with which her soul was agitated."

She describes at great length how she suffered from rumours of her lord's death; how she had three times tried to hang herself; how her eyes had been dried up with weeping, and her short sleep broken by miserable dreams. As Dean Milman says,

Then she addresses the king in terms of over-artful panegyric:—

But she will lead him to the pitch of pride, that his fall may be complete: she will make him impious that the gods may be against him.