Excerpt from The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama in Five Acts Anselmo. What think you, lies there any truth in the tale The King will wed again? Luigi. Why not, Anselmo? A king is no less lonely than a collier When his wife dies. And his young daughter there, For all her being a princess, is no less A motherless child, and cries herself to sleep Night after night, as noisily as any, You may be sure. Anselmo. A motherless child loves not, They say, the second mother. Though the King May find him comfort in another face. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.