I
SCENE
I.
A room in the palace of the Landgrave.
Elizabeth.
AM ashamed
to look upon thy face !
Tannhauser.
O Love ! Pure mystery of hfe
!
Elizabeth.
Not so.
Learn
how this came.
My father would have made
A match
of lands and titles.
I declined,
Minded to keep my high virginity.
He laughed, was cruel.
So I said at last
:
" Tannhauser
only ! "
Was this modesty
.''
Listen.
You loved me when
I
was
a
child
;
And, in my childish
way,
I
looked to you,
Loved sitting at your knee and toying with
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