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SCENE V.
COUNTESS and Lady BEATRIX.Countess
Alas! what fears o'erwhelm my boding mind!
As usual thou my morning slumbers watch'd,
Saw them disturb'd, and I awakned sad.
I dream'd I in the castle met our queen;
And on my breast two new-blown roses flam'd;
'Twixt these a lily fair, which Crichton's son
Attempt'd to seize, but from his touch it shrank.
Old Crichton then with Livingston advanc'd;
Each cropt a rose's head, and dash'd to earth;
There ly, said they, the heads of Douglas' sons:
To earth I glanc'd, beheld two bleeding heads,
Knew them my children's, and aghast awoke.
Lady Beatrix.
Thither the Queen invites us.
Countess.
It is well.
Since thither go my sons, I must attend.
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