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Rh  Ay! is it so? What, they were lax? they fail'd of th' old respect?

Not of respect. No honors were omitted, No outward courtesy; but in the place Of condescending, confidential kindness, Familiar and endearing, there were given me Only these honors and that solemn courtesy. Ah! and the tenderness which was put on, It was the guise of pity, not of favor. No! Albrecht's wife, Duke Albrecht's princely wife, Count Harrach's noble daughter, should not so— Not wholly so should she have been receiv'd.

Yes, yes; they have ta'en offence. My latest conduct, They rail'd at it, no doubt.

O that they had! I have been long accustom'd to defend you, To heal and pacify distemper'd spirits. No; no one rail'd at you. They wrapp'd them up, O Heaven! in such oppressive, solemn silence!— Here is no every-day misunderstanding, No transient pique, no cloud that passes over; Something most luckless, most unhealable, Has taken place. The Queen of Hungary Us'd formerly to call me her dear aunt, And ever at departure to embrace me—