My head feels dizzy, but my limbs are firm.
Good Hardibrand, think'st thou I shall disgrace thee?
HARDIBRAND.
To hack for crow's meat if thou shrink'st one hair's breadth
From the comportment of a gallant soldier,
And of a brave man's son.
RAYNER (smiling with a gratified look).
Methinks I now tread, as I onward move,
With more elastic and dilating step,
As if a spirit of pride within me stirr'd,
Buoying me up on the swoln billows ridge.
(Exeunt.
SCENE III. An outer garden room or portico in the house where Zaterloo is concealed; enter Countess and a Confessor, with two Attendants bearing Zaterloo on a small couch, which they set down on the middle of the stage; the Attendants retire.
COUNTESS ZATERLOO.
How the fresh air revives him: say not then
All hope is banish'd quite.—Thou skak'st thy head:
But whilst I see upon his moving breast
One heave of breath, betok'ning life within,
