SCENE IV.--KING ERIC'S COURT.

KING [_rushes in excitedly_]--Where is my daughter? My daughter! [OMAR _appears in response to bell._] Omar, scour the kingdom for that wretched Sir Constantine. He no doubt knows something about my daughter.

[OMAR _retires, while_ KING _walks up and down stage in anger until_ OMAR _returns._]

OMAR [_returns and bows low_]--Your Majesty, I have searched everywhere except in the forest.

KING--What! not found my daughter? Now methinks the forest is the very place to which she and her scoundrel Knight would take themselves. Now will I creep all through the forest, and mayhap I will find these madcapped lovers. Their ill-gained happiness will soon be brought to an end.