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Full an hour.

And does she oft such ghostly counsel take? Has she of late?

My Lord?

O, nothing! nothing! Stare not as if I meant to question thee: I had no more to say. (Motioning him away.) [Exit. (Alone.) At such a time retired with her confessor! What! hath her lord's return caused in her mind Such sudden need of ghostly counsel?—Strange! Something hath been amiss; if not in act, She is, I fear, in will and fancy tainted.

Nay, pure or tainted, leave the fancy free. Of her concerns who may cognisance take? Although cowl'd priests beneath their jurisdiction Pretend to hold her, be not thou so strict.

Thou know'st, then, that my wife is with her priest.