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Young Lovell says thou art bent on wedding the wizard's daughter." "And if I were, beau sire?" Edward looked grave. "If thou wert, my poor Will, thou wouldst lose all the fame for shrewd wisdom which justifies thy sudden fortunes. No, no; thou art the flower and prince of my new seignorie, thou must mate thyself with a name and a barony that shall be worthy thy fame and thy prospects.
"Perhaps I am the personation of both seignorie and people; but I design this solely for his welfare. Ah, the gallant prince how well he bore himself to-day!" "Ay, when stealing all hearts from thee to him." "And, Vive Dieu, I never loved him so well as when he did! Methinks it was for a day like this that I reared his youth and achieved his crown. Oh, priest, priest, thou mistakest me.
Returning from one of his visits to Ireland, whither he had gone on this occasion to inspect a seignorie which his 'sovereign goddess' had then lately conferred upon him, he makes his re-appearance at court with that so obscure personage, the poet of the 'Faery Queene, under his wing; that same gentleman, as the court is informed, whose bucolics had already attracted so much attention in that brilliant circle.
It may be observed, too, that a middle class as rarely unites itself with the idols of the populace as with the chiefs of a seignorie. The brute attachment of the peasants and the mobs to the gorgeous and lavish earl seemed to the burgesses the sign of a barbaric clanship, opposed to that advance in civilization towards which they half unconsciously struggled.
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