GONERIL enters by the door beyond the
bed, carrying the filled cup carejully in
both hands.
Qoneril

Where are you? What have you done? Speak to
me.
[Turning and seeing HTGD, she lets the
cup Jail and leaps to the open door by the
bed.
Merryn, hither, hither. . . . Mother, O mother !
[She goes to HTGD. MERRTN enters.
Merryn

Princess, what has she done? Who has left her?
She must have been alone.
Goneril Where is Gormflaith?

Merryn

Mercy o' mercies, everybody asks me

For Gormflaith, then for Gormflaith, then for

Gormflaith,
And I ask everybody else for her;
But she is nowhere, and the King wiU foam.
Send me no more; I am old with running about
After a bodiless name.
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Gordon Goneril She has been here,

Bottomley And she has left the Queen. This is her deed.
Merryn

Ah, cruel, cruel! The shame, the pity —

Goneril Lift.
[Together they raise HTGD, and carry her
to bed.
She breathes, but something flitters under her

flesh:
Wynoc the leech must help us now. Go, run.
Seek him, and come back quickly, and do not dare
To come without him.
Merryn It is useless, lady :

There's fever at the cowherd's in the marsh,
And Wynoc broods above it twice a day.
And I have lately seen him hobble thither.
Goneril

I never heard such scornful wickedness
As that a king's physician so should choose
To watch and even heal base men and poor —
And, more than all, when there's a queen
a-dying. . ..
Hygd (recovering consciousness)

Whence come you, dearest daughter? What have

I done?
Are you a dream ? I thought I was alone.
Have you been hunting on the Windy Height ?
Your hands are not thus gentle after hunting.
