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I hear there is an overture of peace.

FIRST LORD
Nay, I assure you, a peace concluded.

SECOND LORD
What will Count Rossillion do then? Will [40] he travel higher, or return again
into France?

FIRST LORD
I perceive by this demand you are not altogether of his counsel.

SECOND LORD
Let it be forbid, sir; so should I be a great deal of his act. [45]

FIRST LORD
Sir, his wife some two months since fled from his house. Her pretence is a

pilgrimage to Saint Jaques le Grand; which holy undertaking with most
austere sanctimony she accomplished; and there residing, the tenderness of
her nature became as a prey to her grief; [50] in fine, made a groan of her

last breath, and now she sings in heaven.

SECOND LORD

How is this justified?

FIRST LORD
The stronger part of it by her own letters, which makes her story true even to
the point of her [55] death. Her death itself, which could not be her office to
say is come, was faithfully confirmed by the rector of the place.

SECOND LORD
Hath the Count all this intelligence?

FIRST LORD
Ay, and the particular confirmations, point [60] from point, to the full arming

of the verity.