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　　SCENE.—Another Part of the Forest.

　　MARGARET (alone)

　　It was an error merely, and no crime,

　　An unsuspecting openness in youth,

　　That from his lips the fatal secret drew,

　　Which should have slept like one of nature's mysteries,

　　Unveil'd by any man.

　　Well, he is dead!

　　And what should Margaret do in the forest?

　　O ill-starr'd John!

　　O Woodvil, man enfeoffed to despair!

　　Take thy farewell of peace.

　　O never look again to see good days,

　　Or close thy lids in comfortable nights,

　　Or ever think a happy thought again,

　　If what I have heard be true.—

　　Forsaken of the world must Woodvil live,

　　If he did tell these men.

　　No tongue must speak to him, no tongue of man

　　Salute him, when he wakes up in a morning;

　　Or bid "good-night" to John. Who seeks to live

　　In amity with thee, must for thy sake

　　Abide the world's reproach. What then?

　　Shall Margaret join the clamours of the world

　　Against her friend? O undiscerning world,

　　That cannot from misfortune separate guilt,

　　No, not in thought! O never, never, John.

　　Prepar'd to share the fortunes of her friend

　　For better or for worse thy Margaret comes,

　　To pour into thy wounds a healing love,

　　And wake the memory of an ancient friendship.

　　And pardon me, thou spirit of Sir Walter,

　　Who, in compassion to the wretched living,

　　Have but few tears to waste upon the dead. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4