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  • Title: Fair Em (Modern)
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    Fair Em (Modern)

    953.1[Scene 12]
    Enter Marquis Lübeck, and [Sueno] the King of Denmark 955angrily, with some attendants, [Guards, and Rosilio].
    Sueno
    Well, Lübeck, well; it is not possible
    But you must be consenting to this act.
    Is this the man so highly you extolled,
    And play a part so hateful with his friend?
    960Since first he came with thee into the court,
    What entertainment and what countenance
    He hath received none better knows than thou.
    In recompense whereof he quites me well
    To steal away fair Mariana, my prisoner,
    965Whose ransom being lately 始greed upon,
    I am deluded of by this escape.
    Besides, I know not how to answer it
    When she shall be demanded home to Swethia.
    Lübeck
    My gracious lord, conjecture not, I pray,
    970Worser of Lübeck than he doth deserve.
    Your highness knows Mariana was my love,
    Sole paragon and mistress of my thoughts.
    Is it likely I should know of her departure,
    Wherein there is no man injured more than I?
    Sueno
    975That carries reason, Marquis, I confess.
    [To Rosilio] Call forth my daughter.
    [Exit Rosilio.]
    Yet I am persuaded
    That she, poor soul, suspected not her going,
    For, as I hear, she likewise loved the man,
    Which he, to blame, did not at all regard.
    [Enter Rosilio and Mariana.]
    Rosilio
    980My lord, here is the Princess Mariana:
    It is your daughter is conveyed away.
    Sueno
    What, my daughter gone?
    Now, Marquis, your villainy breaks forth.
    This match is of your making, gentle sir,
    985And you shall dearly know the price thereof.
    Lübeck
    Knew I thereof, or that there was intent
    In Robert thus to steal your highness始 daughter,
    Let heavens in justice presently confound me.
    Sueno
    Not all the protestations thou canst use
    990Shall save thy life. Away with him to prison!
    [Exit Lübeck with a Guard.]
    And, minion, otherwise it cannot be
    But you are an agent in this treachery.
    I will revenge it throughly on you both.
    Away with her to prison!
    [Exit Mariana, Guard, and Rosilio.]
    Here始s stuff indeed! 995My daughter stolen away?
    It booteth not thus to disturb myself,
    But presently to send to English William,
    To send me that proud knight of Windsor hither,
    Here in my court to suffer for his shame,
    1000Or at my pleasure to be punished there;
    Withal, that Blanche be sent me home again,
    Or I shall fetch her unto Windsor始s cost,
    Yea, and William始s too if he deny her me!
    Exit Sueno.