159474808X SCENE 6.On the planet Coruscant, in Padmé’s apartment.Voices of PADMÉ and OBI-WAN KENOBI are heard offstage.OBI-WAN O, Padmé, listen, you shall see this through:Store up your energy, all shall be well.PADMÉ It shall not be, I do not have the strength.My soul doth ebb, an ’twere the tide receding.Enter ANAKIN SKYWALKER.ANAKIN O, plague of visions dancing in my mind.Methought I saw my Padmé sore besetBy agony of childbirth, done to death,Whilst Obi-Wan stood by with helpless wordsAs though he could, by speaking, heal her pain.O, Obi-Wan, what knowledge to me comes?I sense his presence here, within this place,’Tis like a stench that lingers in the air.I treasure him, yet wherefore should he comeInto the private dwelling of my love?Enter PADMÉ.My Master, Obi-Wan, hath been here, aye?PADMÉ Indeed, this morning he did visit me.ANAKIN What was it he did want?PADMÉ —Fear not, nor sigh:All his concern was lavish’d over thee.He doth report much stress of late thou’st got,Which I do know, and share with thee thy load.ANAKIN I have of late—but wherefore I know not—Lost all my mirth, and feel I’ve lost my road.PADMÉ Yet wherefore lost?
