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Her mind must be prepared. Meantime I go, And thou art here to comfort and attend her: O do it gently, Rosa! do it wisely!

You need not doubt my will.—Go ye so soon; And to Northumberland?

So I intended, And so Argyll and John of Lorne believe: But since this messenger from Mull arrived, Another thought has struck me.—Said'st thou not The child—thy lady's child, ta'en from the castle, Is to the keeping of Lochtarish's mother Committed, whose lone house is on the shore?

Yes, whilst in prison pent, so did I hear My keeper say, and much it troubled me.

Canst thou to some good islander commend me, Within whose house I might upon the watch Conceal'd remain?—It is to Mull I go, And not to England. While Maclean is here, Attended by his vassals, the occasion I'll seize to save the infant.