If Hero had been a boy, Balthasar would have been the bastard child installed about the house to keep the little heir company, Beatrice reflected; to that extent she was born under a lucky star. Poor Balthasar - he was called son and cousin, but treated as a useful servingman/musician, using what skills his mother had taught him to sing the song she had made in bitter satire against her patron.
Sigh no more! - well, her own mother had neither sighed nor sung, thought Beatrice, but had, by Ursula's account, cried and struggled bitterly against her casting-off, as a mistress inconveniently pregnant at the same time as Leonato's wife.
Sigh no more! - well, her own mother had neither sighed nor sung, thought Beatrice, but had, by Ursula's account, cried and struggled bitterly against her casting-off, as a mistress inconveniently pregnant at the same time as Leonato's wife.
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