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\nSCENE III <\/font><\/b><\/span>\n<\/div>\n

\n

\n <\/div>\n

\n

\n <\/div>\n

\nEric, Aslaug.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC<\/font><\/p>\n

\nCome hither.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou hast sent for me ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCome hither.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWho art thou?<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat thou knowest.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDo I know?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>(to herself)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDoes he suspect?<\/font><\/p>\n

\n(aloud)<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI am a dancing-girl,
\nMy name is Aslaug. That thou knowest.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhere
\nDid Odin forge thy sweet imperious eyes,
\nThy noble stature and thy lofty look?
\nThou dancest, \u2014 yes; thou hast the art, and song,
\nThe natural expression of thy soul,
\nComes from thy lips, floats, hovers and returns
\nLike a wild bird that wings around its nest.
\nThis art the princesses of Sweden learn
\nAnd those Norwegian girls who frame themselves
\nOn Sweden.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 488<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tASLAUG <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt may be my birth and past
\nWere nobler than my present fortunes are.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhy cam’st thou to me?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>(to herself)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDoes Death admonish him
\nOf danger ? Does he feel the impending stroke ?
\nHertha could turn the question.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhy sought’st thou out
\nEric of Norway? Wherefore brought’st thou here
\nThat beauty as compelling as thy song,
\nNo man can gaze on and possess his soul?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI am a dancing-girl. My song and face<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAre all my stock; I have carried them for gain<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo the most wealthy market.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIs it so?\u00b9
\nI buy these\u00b2 from thee. Aslaug, thy body too!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nRelease me! Wilt thou lay thy hands on death?
\nAll Norway has not sold itself thy slave ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThis was not spoken like a dancing-girl!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>(to herself)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhat is this siege ? I have no dagger with me.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\u00b9<\/font>Dost thou, girl? <\/font>
\n     \u00b2<\/font>I have bought them
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 489<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nWill he discover me? Will he compel?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIf Norway has not sold itself my slave,
\nThou hast. Remember what thou art \u2014 or claim’st to be.<\/font>\u00b9<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>(to herself)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe is subtle, terrible. I see the thing
\nHe drives at and admire unwillingly
\nThe mighty tyrant.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBetter play thy part.<\/font>\u00b2<\/font>
\nIf thou art really nobler than thou feign’st,
\nDeclare it. If<\/font>\u00b3<\/font> thou art a dancing-girl,
\nI have bought<\/font>4<\/sup><\/font> thee for my<\/font>5<\/font><\/sup> hire, thy song, thy dance,
\nThy body. I shrink not from whatever way I can
\nPossess thee more than hesitates the sea to engulf
\nWhat it embraces.<\/font>6<\/sup><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nKing, thou speakest words
\nI scorn to answer.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOr even to understand?
\nThou art an enemy who<\/font>7<\/font><\/sup> in disguise
\nEnterest my court to know and break my plans.<\/font>8<\/sup><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/sup><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\u00b9<\/font>Thou hast. Remember what thou art \u2014 or else
\nThou claim’st to be. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nA<\/font>SLAUG <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI am caught in a snare. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\u00b2<\/font>Therefore choose thy part.      <\/font>
\n\u00b3<\/font>But     
\n4<\/sup>I hold      5<\/sup>a <\/font><\/p>\n

\n6<\/sup>Alternative to "I shrink…embraces" <\/font><\/p>\n

\nGirl, I care not by what way
\nI shall possess thee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n7<\/sup>that     
\n8<\/sup> Seekest my court to spy upon my plans. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 490<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tASLAUG <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat if I were?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou hast too lightly then
\nDevised thy chains and long imprisonment,<\/font>\u00b9<\/font>
\nToo thoughtlessly adventured a divine
\nAnd glorious stake, thyself.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat canst thou to me ?<\/font>\u00b2<\/font>
\nI do not think I am afraid of death.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFar be death from thee who, if heaven were just,
\nWouldst walk immortal! Thou seest no greater peril ?<\/font> 
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThan death ? None that I tremble at or shun.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDost thou not see that thou art by thy choice
\nCaged with the danger of the lion’s mood ?\u00b3
\nDost thou not see the hunger of his eyes,
\nFeel on thy face the breath of his desire ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>(alarmed)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nI came not here to spy.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhy cam’st thou then?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo sing, to dance and earn.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\u00b9<\/font>Devised thy capture and imprisonment,      <\/font>
\n\u00b2<\/font>What canst thou do?      <\/font>
\n\u00b3<\/font>paw? <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 491<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThen richly earn.<\/font>\u00b9<\/font>
\nAslaug, even then<\/font>\u00b2<\/font> thou knowest why I looked
\nUpon thee, why I kept thee in my house.
\nThou, thou hast given the means of my desire!<\/font>\u00b3<\/font>
\nYet if thy form’ and speech more nobly express
\nThe truth of thee than thy vocation can,
\nAvow it, beg my clemency.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>(violently)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy clemency!<\/font><\/p>\n

\n(controlling herself)
\n<\/i>I am a dancing-girl. I came to earn.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC<\/font><\/p>\n

\nChoose yet.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>(after a pause)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI have not anything to choose.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBecause thou hast the hones s in thy mood,
\nThou thought’st to play with Eric. It is I
\nWho play with thee. Thou liest in my grasp.
\nHow wilt thou now escape my passionate will ?
\nI am enamoured of thy golden hair,
\nThy body like the snow, thy antelope eyes,
\nThy neck that seems to know it carries heaven
\nUpon it easily. Thy song, thy speech,
\nThe rhythmic motion of thy gracious limbs
\nWalking or dancing, and the careless pride
\nThat undulates in every gesture and tone,
\nHave seized upon me smiling sweet control.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\u00b9<\/font>Then earn, Aslaug.
\n<\/font>     \u00b2<\/font><\/font>Thou art no fool,
\n<\/font>\u00b3<\/font>Two cancelled lines after this:
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nNor think thy feet have entered to escape <\/font><\/p>\n

\nUnchained the antre of thy enemy. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 492<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nI have not learnt to yield to any power,
\nBut to surprise, to force and to command.
\nSo will I hold thee. Prisoner and enemy,
\nOr dancing-girl and purchased chattel, choose.
\nThou art perturbed? Thou findest no reply?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tASLAUG <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBecause I am troubled by thy violent words,
\nI cannot answer thee or will not yet.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n(turning away)<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHow could he see this death ? Is he a god
\nAnd knows men’s hearts ? This is a terrible
\nAnd iron pressure.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat was thy design ?
\nTo spy or slay? For thou art capable
\nEven of such daring.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>(to herself)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSwiftly, swiftly done,
\nIt may be yet. To put him off an hour,
\nSome minutes and to strike!<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat dost thou choose ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>(turning to him)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI have laughed till now. Unthinking I came here<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd dallied with thy thoughts, a little amazed,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPure of all hostile purpose, innocent<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nOf all the guileful thoughts and blood-stained plans<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThou burdenest thy fierce suspicions with.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThis is the Nemesis of men who rise<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nToo suddenly, by fraud or<\/font>\u00b9<\/font> violence,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThat they suspect all hearts, yes, every word<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\u00b9and <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 493<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nOf sheltering a kindred violence
\nOr subtler fraud, and they expect their fall
\nSudden and savage as their rise has been.
\nI am a dancing-girl and nothing more.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThou art my dancing-girl and nothing more?
\nWear then this necklace and submit thyself, \u2014
\nNor think it all thy price.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAslaug dashes the necklace to the ground.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nThou art not subtle<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>(agitated)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt is not thus that women’s hearts are wooed.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIf so I woo thee, so do all men woo,
\nEnamoured of what thou hast claimed to be.
\nWas’t falsely claimed? Wilt thou deny it now
\nAnd hope to earn thy pardon with a smile ?
\nArt thou the dancing-girl of Norway still,
\nOr some disguised, high-reaching, nobler soul?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>{suddenly)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI am thy dancing-girl, King Eric. See
\nI take thy necklace.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tE<\/font>RIC
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTake it; still be free
As thou decidest, thy price or else my gift.
No light decision I would have thee make,
But one that binds us both. I give thee time.
Ponder and let thy saner mind prevail,
Not courage most perverse, though ardent, rule.
Confess thy treason, Aslaug, trust thy King.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHe goes out. Aslaug, after a silence,
\ntakes the chain from her neck, admires<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 494<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nit and throws it on a chair <\/i><\/font>
\n\u00b9 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tASLAUG <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYou are too much like drops of royal blood.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAfter another pause she takes it again.<\/i><\/font>\u00b2<\/font>
\n<\/i>A necklace? No, a chain! Or wilt thou prove
\nA god’s death-warrant?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n(resuming the necklace on her neck)<\/i><\/font>\u00b3<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHertha, Hertha, here!
\n(to Hertha as she enters)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nO counsellor, art thou come?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ERTHA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI heard thee call.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI called. Why did I call? See, Hertha, see,
\nHow richly Norway’s Eric buys his doom!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ERTHA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHe gave thee this ? It is a kingdom’s price.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA kingdom’s price! the kingdom of the slain!
\nA price to rid the nations of a god!
\nO Hertha, what has earth to do with gods,
\nWho suffers only human weight ? Will she
\nNot go too swiftly downward from her base,
\nIf Eric treads her long ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ERTHA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSister of Swegn,
\nThere are new lustres in thy face and eyes.
\nWhat said he to thee ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\u00b9<\/font>Aslaug alone, lifts the chain, admires it and throws it on a chair.<\/font><\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n\u00b2<\/font>She lifts it again.      <\/i> <\/font>
\n
\n\u00b3<\/font>She puts it round her neck.<\/i> <\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 495<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tASLAUG <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat did Eric say?
\nEric to Aslaug, sister of King Swegn!
\nA kingdom’s price! Swegn’s kingdom! And for him,
\nMy marble emperor, my god who loves,
\nThis mortal Odin? What for him? By force
\nShall he return to his effulgent throne ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ERTHA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nYou were not used to a divided mind.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNor am I altered now, not heart-perplexed:<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut these are thoughts that naturally arise.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ERTHA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHe loves you then?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe loves and he suspects.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ERTHA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhat, Aslaug?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat we are and we intend.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ERTHA<\/font><\/p>\n

\nIf he suspects!<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt cannot matter much
\nIf we are rapid.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ERTHA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIf we spoil it all!
\nI will not torture Swegn with useless tears,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 \n<\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 496<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nPerishing vainly, I will slay and die.
\nHe shall remember that he owes his crown
\nTo our great sacrifice and soothe his grief,
\nThat it was necessary, or else bear it,
\nA noble duty to the nobly dead.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n(after a moment’s reflection) .
\n<\/i>Child, you must humour him, you must consent.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo what?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ERTHA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo all.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHast thou at all perused
\nThe infamy that thou advisest?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ERTHA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYes.
\nI do not bid you yield, but seem to yield.
\nEven I who am Swegn’s wife, would do as much;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut though you talk, you still are less in love,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nValuing an empty outward purity<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBefore your brother’s life, your brother’s crown.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG<\/font><\/p>\n

\nYou know the way to bend me to your will.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ERTHA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nGive freedom but no license to his love.
\nFor when he thinks to embrace, we shall have struck.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd, Hertha, if a swift and violent heart
\nBetrayed my will and overturned your plans ?
\nIs there no danger, Hertha, there ?<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 497<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tH<\/font>ERTHA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTill now
\nI feared not that from Aslaug, sister of Swegn.
\nBut if you fear it!<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>SLAUG
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNo, since I consent.
\nYou shall not blame again my selfishness,
\nNor my defect of love.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nShe goes out.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tH<\/font>ERTHA
\n\t<\/font>(alone)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSwegn then might rule!
\n(with a laugh)<\/i><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI had almost forgotten Fate between
\nSmiling, alert, and the unconquered gods.<\/font>
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