Your indisposition is
really very serious.
SAKOONTALA [_half-rising from her couch_].--What were you going to ask?
ANASUYA.--We know very little about love-matters, dear Sakoontala; but
for all that, I cannot help suspecting your present state to be
something similar to that of the lovers we have read about in romances.
Tell us frankly what is the cause of your disorder. It is useless to
apply a remedy, until the disease be understood.
KING.--Anasuya bears me out in my suspicion.
SAKOONTALA [_aside_].--I am, indeed, deeply in love; but cannot rashly
disclose my passion to these young girls.
PRIYAMVADA.--What Anasuya says, dear Sakoontala, is very just. Why give
so little heed to your ailment? Every day you are becoming thinner;
though I must confess your complexion is still as beautiful as ever.
KING.--Priyamvada speaks most truly.
Sunk is her velvet cheek; her wasted bosom
Loses its fulness; e'en her slender waist
Grows more attenuate; her face is wan,
Her shoulders droop;--as when the vernal blasts
Sear the young blossoms of the Madhavi,
Blighting their bloom; so mournful is the change,
Yet in its sadness, fascinating still,
Inflicted by the mighty lord of love
On the fair figure of the hermit's daughter.
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