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COUNTESS ZATERLOO (Without).

I want my son: I pray you is he here?

BERNARD.

He is not here.

COUNTESS ZATERLOO (without).

Nay, say not so, I think he is with you.

Tell him I have sat these three long hours,
Counting the weary beatings of the clock,
Which slowly portion'd out the promis'd time
That brought him not to bless me with his sight.
If he is well, why does he thus forget?
And if he is not, as I fear he is not,
Tell me the worst, and let me be with him
To smooth his couch and raise his sickly head.

COUNT ZATERLOO (aside to Bernard).

Tell her it is unseemly for a mother

To runabout like a new foolish wife.

BERNARD.

If you complain thus movingly, fair widow,

We shall believe you seek a second husband
In lieu of your good son; and by my truth
It were a better errand.

COUNTESS ZATERLOO.

O base of thought, as most unblest of speech!

My son is not with you: it cannot be:
I did him wrong to seek him in such company.