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With what high title Please you to qualify it ?

Trae, I love liebhaid von Orb, but 't b the honest passion Wherewith a knight leads home his equal wife.

Great God ! and thou wilt brag thy shame ! Thou speakest Of wife and Jewess in one breath ! Wilt make Thy princely name a stench in Grerman nostrils ? Hold, father, hold! You know her — yes, a Jewess In her domestic piety, her soul Large, simple, splendid like a star, her heart Suffused with Syrian sunshine -but no more- The aspect of a Princess of Thuringia, Swan-necked, gold-haired, Madonna-eyed. I love her! If you will quench this passion, take my life !

He is your son !