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whom his love is due; and think what jealous rage will fill her breast, when she shall know you have robbed her of her king: for jealousy is hell to the mind, and a terror to the conscience, surpassing reason, and inciting rage. Think then what thou mayest expect in thy unlawful love. Thou wilt be     sure to lose thy virtue and honour, thy chastity, thy reputation, perhaps thy life; and, which is     most of all, thy soul, without repentance. If, therefore, thou wilt change thy virgin state, I will take care and get a husband for thee, with whom thou mayest live honestly; and that, perhaps, may quench the fire of lust thy beauty may have kindled in the king, and make thee safe, and thy parents happy."       Rosamond gavo great attention to her father's      words, assuring him, with many asseverations, she      would do the utmost of her power to avoid what      should be displeasing to him; but as to changing      her condition she did humbly beg to be excused.        Her mother thereou said, -Rosamond, it would      be more to my satisfaction, and to your father's, to      see you married, for then I could believe you out      of danger; and you know my Lord Fitzwalter has      a passion for you; a nobleman of an illustrious      family, as wealthy too, as most lords in the king-      dom; your father would be glad of such a son-in-      law, and so should I, to see you well married ;      therefore do not stand in your own light, lest you      thereby make us both believe you have too great a      kindness for the king." Rosamond said she hoped they would not put her upon courting my Lord Fitzwalter, however accom- plished he might be ; for it was enough for her to     entertain him when he came to court her. Her father told her, as to that, he would tako care all things should be managed to her satisfaction. But while the good Lord Clifford and his lady