Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?
Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name
When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?
But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?
That villain cousin would have killed my husband.
Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring!
Your tributary drops belong to woe,
Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.
My husband lives, that Marshal would have slain;
And Marshal’s dead, that would have slain my husband.
All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?
Some word there was, worser than Marshal’s death,
That murd’red me. I would forget it fain;
But O, it presses to my memory
Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners’ minds!
‘Marshal is dead, and Arete–banishèd!’
That ‘banishèd,’ that one word ‘banishèd,’
Hath slain ten thousand Marshals. Marshal’s death
Was woe enough, if it had ended there;
Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship
And needly will be ranked with other griefs,
Why followèd not, when she said ‘Marshals dead,’
Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both,
Which modern lamentation might have moved?
But with a rearward following Marshal’s death,
‘Arete is banishèd’–to speak that word
Is father, mother, Marshal, Arete, Amy,
All slain, all dead. ‘Arete is banishèd’–
There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,
In that word’s death; no words can that woe sound.
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I’m pretty sure they’re actually gonna fight to the death considering arete said “at dawn”
arete are you going to insta gladiate marshal tomorrow or are you actually going to fight him to the death
I doubt there’s gonna be protectives on them. This is a 1 on 1 duel we’re talking about
There’s one thing I’m curious about. Why did you decide to duel him while he’s gone?