His majesty knows all that has happened here this night.

He knew that a plot was formed to rescue you; and while they believed they were deceiving him, the plotters themselves were deceived.

They had succeeded under various artful false pretences in influencing the king to give his signet-ring to one of his lords.

But his majesty was already warned, and he already knew that it was not a man, as they wanted to make him believe, but a woman, who came, not to take leave of you, but to deliver you from prison .-- My lady, the jailer whom you imagined that you had bribed was a faithful servant of the king.

He betrayed your plot to me; and it was I who ordered him to make a show of favoring your deed.