Oh, fear naught! I would not have accused you.
I would have even denied that love which you have so often and with such transporting reality sworn to me.

I would have done it in order to see whether my Geraldine could at last gain courage and strength to lover.
He saw how he pressed her hands to his lips; how he put his hand to her head to raise it from the floor." The king was speechless with rage.

He could only lift his arm to beckon the soldiers to approach; to point to Henry Howard, who had not yet succeeded in raising the queen's head from the floor.
"Arrest him!" said Earl Douglas, lending words to the king's mute sign.
"In the king's name arrest him, and conduct him to the Tower!" "Yes, arrest him!" said the king; and, as with youthful speed he walked up to Henry Howard and put his hand heavily on his shoulder, he with terrible calmness continued: "Henry Howard, your wish shall be fulfilled; you shall mount the scaffold for which you have so much longed!" The earl's noble countenance remained calm and unmoved; his bright beaming eye fearlessly encountered the eye of the king flashing with wrath.
"Sire," said he, "my life is in your hand, and I very well know that you will not spare it.

I do not even ask you to do so.

But spare this noble and beautiful woman, whose only crime is that she has followed the voice of her heart.