_Edward_. Thou liest, she hath not: But I would she had!
_Audley_. All love and duty to my lord the king!
Edward. _Well, all but one is none_:--What news with you?
_Audley_. I have, my liege, levied those horse and foot,
According to your charge, and brought them hither.
_Edward_. Then let those foot trudge hence upon those horse
According to their discharge, and begone.--
_Derby_. I'll look upon the countess' mind
Anon.
_Derby_. The countess' mind, my liege?
_Edward_. I mean, the emperor:--Leave me alone.
_Audley_. What's in his mind?
_Derby_. Let's leave him to his humour.
[_Exeunt_ DERBY and AUDLEY
_Edward_. Thus from the heart's abundance speaks the tongue
Countess for emperor: And indeed, why not?
She is as _imperator_ over me;
And I to her
Am as a kneeling vassal, that observes
The pleasure or displeasure of her eye.
In this little scene there is perhaps on the whole more general likeness
to Shakespeare's earliest manner than we can trace in any other passage
of the play.
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