human
So then, said Clara,
gpt
returned Anne,
human
And this you have learnt from your lover?
gpt
I have, lady; he loves to talk to me in our walks about the wonders seen in these islands of the sea in the far West. I would you could hear him describe what he has learnt from one or two of the youths who have adventured and returned: how they have seen and landed upon islands inhabited by people of wondrous appearance; islands full of strange sounds, and in which the most ravishing melody floated in the air, the musicians being spirits and invisible to sight.
human
Methinks, said Clara,
gpt
I should much like to hear your lover's account of such wonders.
human
Nay, so interested is he in these accounts, and the riches to be found on the Spanish main, that had I not over-ruled his design, he would himself have adventured this year with Martin Frobisher.
gpt
I have heard something of Frobisher's former expedition, said Clara.
human
What were the particulars?
gpt
Nay, I can but inform you as I have learned it from the lips of others,
human
They set out, I have heard, said Clara,
gpt
It was, lady, said Anne;
human
And so would you as surely have lost a lover, as he would have lost his venture, said Clara.
gpt
I have no opinion of these wild schemes--and yet I have half a mind to fit out an expedition and venture myself in quest of a treasure.
human
You, lady! said Anne;
gpt
I was never more so,
human
Yet stay, she said, as Anne was about to depart.
gpt
We have been long friends, Anne Hathaway, and if I find the choice you have made a worthy one, I will befriend you both. One thing I have forgotten to mention, and that is the report I have heard of this match between you and young Shakespeare being disapproved of by your father. Is that also true?
human
My lover is at present poor,
gpt
Enough, said Clara.
human
Farewell, Anne, I intend leaving Shottery for some time, but when I return, remember you have a friend in me. Here, she continued,
gpt
The verse is indeed beautiful, she said.
human
Happy, happy Anne, how much is thy lot to be envied! In thy rank in life there is little impediment to the affections. Thou lovest and art beloved again: there is no drawback in regard to inequality, or matching in degree. The village lad loves and chooses his mate as the turtle, unembarrassed by wealth or worldly interest. This youth must, however, be in mind at least far superior. Well, thy prospect is a happy one! Whilst mine, alas! he I love is perhaps lost in the watery wastes of unknown seas--perhaps starving on some desert shore.