Mary Stuart: A Tragedy

SCENE V.

      MARY, KENNEDY.

   KENNEDY.
   What have you done? She has gone hence in wrath
   All hope is over now!

   MARY (still quite beside herself).
               Gone hence in wrath!
   She carries death within her heart! I know it.

      [Falling on KENNEDY'S bosom.

   Now I am happy, Hannah! and at last,
   After whole years of sorrow and abasement,
   One moment of victorious revenge
   A weight falls off my heart, a weight of mountains;
   I plunged the steel in my oppressor's breast!

   KENNEDY.
   Unhappy lady! Frenzy overcomes you.
   Yes, you have wounded your inveterate foe;
   'Tis she who wields the lightning, she is queen,
   You have insulted her before her minion.

   MARY.
   I have abased her before Leicester's eyes;
   He saw it, he was witness of my triumph.
   How did I hurl her from her haughty height,
   He saw it, and his presence strengthened me.