t that I must give my daughter to
a lad that owns neither clod nor furrow? Whose
estate is but a shovel for the ashes and a tongs for
the red coals.

_Queen_: It is likely he is urged by the sting of
greed--it is but riches he is looking for.

_King_: I will not begrudge him his own asking
of silver and of gold!

_Manus_: Throw it out to the beggars on the
road! I would not take a copper half-penny!
I'll take nothing but what has come to me from
your own word!

_(King bows his head.)_

_Princess: (Coming forward.)_ Then this battle
is not between you and an old king that is feeble,
but between yourself and myself.

_Manus_: I am sorry, Princess, if it must be a
battle.

_Princess_: You can never bring me away against
my will.

_Manus_: I said no word of doing that.

_Princess_: You think, so, I will go with you of
myself? The day I will do that will be the day
you empty the ocean!

_Manus_: I will not wait longer than to-day.

_Princess_: Many a man waited seven years for
a king's daughter!

_Manus_: And another seven--and seven generations
of hags. But that is not my nature.
I will not kneel to any woman, high or low, or
crave kindness that she cannot give.

_Princess_: Then I can go free!

_Manus_: For this day I take you in my charge.
I cross and claim you to myself, unless a better
man will come.

_Princess_: I would think it easier to find a better
man than one that would be worse to me!

_Manus_: If one should come that you think
to be a better man, I will give you your own way.

_Princess_: It is you being in the world at all
that is my grief.

_Manus_: Time makes all things clear. You
did not go far out in the world yet, my poor little
Princess.

_Princess_: I would be well pleased to drive
you out through the same world!

_Manus_: With or without your goodwill, I
will not go out of this place till I have carried out
the business I came to do.

_Dall Glic_: Is it the falling of hailstones I hear
or the rumbling of thunder, or is it the