LAODICE AND DANAË
Reading edition
"And, O, perchance it is the fairest lot At once to be a queen and be forgot; For queens are oft remembered by the weighed Wild dusky peacock-flashing sins they played, But queens clean-hearted leave us and grow less, Lost in the common light of righteousness." From KING RENÉ'S HONEYMOON: A MASQUE, Scene vii.