The Star of Seville Author:Fanny Kemble Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Enter Page. . PAGE. May it please you, noble sir, attend the King. . Arias. I' the instant. [Exit Page. Now your lordship sees that I Seek not the... more » mountain, but the mountain me; But I'll not fail to give his Majesty The very essence of your homily. Farewell, old honest lord—good Mumblesaws. [Exeunt. SCENE II.—A CHAMBER IN THE ARCHBISHOP OF SEVILLE'S PALACE. The King discovered. King. 'Tis not in nature to outgo conceit; Yet have mine eyes this very day beheld That which no fancy ever yet did parallel, Though 'twere the rarest weaving poet's brain Was ever loom to. Excellent perfection ! That did outshine things brightest at their noon. The pomp and glittering pride of glowing rubies Look'd pale by the living colour of her blood, And, with a glory that outfaced the sun, Her eyes at mid-day shone like undimmed stars. Enter Arias. Ho! welcome, Cousin ! welcome, my good Arias ! Answer me briefly, as I question thee. Didst mark in the high street, as we rode along This morning, at her balcony, a lady ? Arias. I did. KING. Dost know her name ? Arias. I do. KING. Estrella? ARIAS. The same. KING. Dost know her brother, Pedro de Roella ? Arias. I do. KING. I love that lady well ? Arias. May 't please you, sir, Is that a question ? King. Psha ! ay, a score in one. How is she to be begged, bought, stolen, wooed, won— How can I make her mine ? ARIAS. Sir, you can marry her. KING. Marry her, good sooth ! That's news. Can I do so ? It is not yet the time of life with me When I can squeeze myself into the compass Of that same narrow gold eternity We wed withal. Come, come, to thy inventions. I'd give thee a second cousin like thyself, Born all as out of rule, and make him...« less