It may be death to approach him even now.

I would have had thy mother keep away.

Come not thou near to him.

Let us not increase the peril which besets us." Gertrude stood quite still, neither resisting her father, nor yet yielding to the pressure which would have forced her from the room.
"Dear sir," she said, with dutiful reverence, "I must fain submit to thee in this thing.

Yet I prithee keep me not from my brother in the hour of his extremity.