RAYNER.
Retire, my love:(to Elizabeth.)
I cannot bear to have thy woes exposed
Before a stranger's gaze.
(She retires with Mardonio to an obscure part of the Prison at the bottom of the Stage.)
Enter Hardibrand and Bertram.
HARDIBRAND (to Bertram: stopping short as he enters, and gazing upon Rayner, who is turned away from them and looking after Elizabeth).
And face, tho' thus half turn'd from us, I see
His father. Still a soldier and a gentleman
In ev'ry plight be seem'd. A clown or child
Had sworn him such clad in a woollen rug.
(Advancing to Rayner.)
Young soldier, I did know your gallant father;
Regard me not as an intruding stranger.
RAYNER.
Such greeting to my heart had been most welcome.
A gallant father and condemned son
May in the letter'd registers of kindred
Alliance have; but in the mind's pure record,
They no relation bear: let your brave friend
Still be to you as one who had no son.
