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Question me not, my son; there is good cause: 'T is meet that he should go.

Forgive me, Father! That solemn voice and sorrowing eye too well Asserts there is a cause,—a fearful cause. I will obey thee. (Going, but returns again.) Is there aught further thou would'st have me do?

He will, perhaps, desire to see his lady; But till he be prepared to leave the castle, And take his last farewell, methinks 't were better They should not meet.

I understand you, Father. [Exeunt severally.