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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Revenge + A Tragedy + +Author: Edward Young + +Release Date: December 11, 2009 [EBook #30653] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE REVENGE *** + + + + +Produced by Delphine Lettau and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net + + + + + + +</pre> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<p> </p> +<div class="center"> +<table style="margin: 0 auto" cellpadding="4" summary="Illustration"> + <tr> + <td align="center"> + <a href="images/frontis.jpg"> + <img src="images/frontis.jpg" height="400" + alt="FRONTISPIECE" /></a> + </td> + </tr> +</table> +</div> + +<p> </p> +<hr class="narrow" /> +<p> </p> + +<h1>THE REVENGE.</h1> +<h3><i>A Tragedy,</i></h3> +<h5>IN FIVE ACTS.</h5> + +<h2><span class="wide">BY DR. YOUNG.</span></h2> +<p> </p> +<h5>CORRECTLY GIVEN,</h5> +<h3>AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRES ROYAL.</h3> +<h5><i>With Remarks.</i></h5> + +<div class="center"> +<table style="margin: 0 auto" cellpadding="4" summary="Illustration"> + <tr> + <td align="center"> + <a href="images/tp.jpg"> + <img src="images/tp.jpg" height="230" + alt="THE_REVENGE" /></a> + </td> + </tr> +</table> +</div> + +<h3><i>London</i>:</h3> +<h5>Printed by D. S. Maurice, Fenchurch-street;<br /> +<br /> +SOLD BY<br /> +<br /> +T. HUGHES, 35, LUDGATE STREET, AND J. BYSH,<br /> +52, PATERNOSTER ROW;</h5> +<p> </p> +<hr class="narrow" /> +<p> </p> + +<h3>REMARKS.</h3> + +<p>This tragedy is the dramatic master-piece of it's +valuable author, but at first was not so successful +as Busiris and his other plays. Though similar, in +some degree, to the story of Shakspeare's <i>Othello</i>, +the motives for resentment in Zanga are of a more +noble and consistent nature, and the credulous +object of his deadly hatred more excusable and +more pitied in yielding to it's subtlety.</p> + +<p>There is great scope for talent in the character +of Zanga; but the whining nonsense of Alonzo +and Carlos would tire in any hands.</p> + +<p>We have inserted, on page 59, a narrative said +to have really happened in Spain a few years before +this piece was written;—it is so nearly followed +by Dr. Young in his admirable <i>Revenge</i>, as +to leave no doubt of having formed it's ground-work.</p> +<p> </p> + +<h3>DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.</h3> + +<div class="center"> +<table class="sm" style="margin: 0 auto" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" summary="characters"> +<tr><td align="left"> </td><td align="left"><span class="ind1">Covent Garden, 1814.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Don Alonzo</td><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Mr. Conway.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Don Carlos</td><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Mr. Hamerton.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Don Alvarez</td><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Mr. Murray.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Don Manuel</td><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Mr. Creswell.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Zanga</td><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Mr. Young.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" valign="top">Officers</td><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Messrs. Brown, Grant, &c.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Leonora</td><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Mrs. Egerton.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Isabella</td><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Miss Logan.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center" colspan="2">SCENE—Spain.</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + +<p> </p> +<hr class="minimal" /> +<p> </p> + +<h2>THE REVENGE.</h2> + +<h3>ACT THE FIRST.</h3> + +<h5>SCENE I.<span class="ind1">BATTLEMENTS, WITH A SEA PROSPECT.</span></h5> + +<div class="center"> +<p class="noindent"><i>Enter Zanga.</i></p> +</div> + +<div class="center"> +<table style="margin: 0 auto" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="text"> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Whether first nature, or long want of peace,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Has wrought my mind to this, I cannot tell;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But horrors now are not displeasing to me:<span class="ind3">[<i>thunder.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I like this rocking of the battlements.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Rage on, ye winds; burst, clouds; and, waters, roar!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">You bear a just resemblance of my fortune,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And suit the gloomy habit of my soul.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Isabella.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Who's there? My love!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> Why have you left my bed?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Your absence more affrights me than the storm.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> The dead alone in such a night can rest,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And I indulge my meditation here.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Woman, away. I choose to be alone.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> I know you do, and therefore will not leave you;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Excuse me, Zanga, therefore dare not leave you.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Is this a night for walks of contemplation?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Something unusual hangs upon your heart,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And I will know it: by our loves, I will.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ask I too much to share in your distress?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> In tears? thou fool! then hear me, and be plung'd</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In hell's abyss, if ever it escape thee.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To strike thee with astonishment at once—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I hate Alonzo. First recover that,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And then thou shalt hear further.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> Hate Alonzo!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I own, I thought Alonzo most your friend,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And that he lost the master in that name.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Hear then. 'Tis twice three years since that great man</span><span class="ind1"> </span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">(Great let me call him, for he conquer'd me)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Made me the captive of his arm in fight.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He slew my father, and threw chains o'er me,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">While I with pious rage pursu'd revenge.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I then was young; he plac'd me near his person,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And thought me not dishonour'd by his service.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">One day (may that returning day be night,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The stain, the curse, of each succeeding year!)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For something, or for nothing, in his pride</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He struck me. (While I tell it, do I live?)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He smote me on the cheek—I did not stab him,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For that were poor revenge—E'er since, his folly</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Has strove to bury it beneath a heap</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of kindnesses, and thinks it is forgot.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Insolent thought! and like a second blow!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Affronts are innocent, where men are worthless;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And such alone can wisely drop revenge.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> But with more temper, Zanga, tell your story;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To see your strong emotions startles me.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Yes, woman, with the temper that befits it.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Has the dark adder venom? So have I</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When trod upon. Proud Spaniard, thou shalt feel me!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For from that day, that day of my dishonour,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">From that day have I curs'd the rising sun,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Which never fail'd to tell me of my shame.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">From that day have I bless'd the coming night,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Which promis'd to conceal it; but in vain;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The blow return'd for ever in my dream.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Yet on I toil'd, and groan'd for an occasion</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of ample vengeance; none has yet arriv'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Howe'er, at present, I conceive warm hopes</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of what may wound him sore in his ambition,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Life of his life, and dearer than his soul.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">By nightly march he purpos'd to surprise</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The Moorish camp; but I have taken care</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">They shall be ready to receive his favour.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Failing in this, a cast of utmost moment,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Would darken all the conquests he has won.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> Just as I enter'd, an express arriv'd.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> To whom?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> His friend, don Carlos.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Be propitious,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh! Mahomet, on this important hour,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And give at length my famish'd soul revenge!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What is revenge, but courage to call in</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Our honour's debts, and wisdom to convert</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Others' self-love into our own protection?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But see, the morning dawn breaks in upon us;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I'll seek don Carlos, and inquire my fate.<span class="ind3">[<i>exeunt.</i></span></td></tr> +</table> +</div> + +<p> </p> +<h5>SCENE II. <span class="ind1">THE PALACE.</span></h5> + +<div class="center"> + <p class="noindent"> + <i>Enter Don Manuel and Don Carlos.</i> + </p> +</div> + +<div class="center"> +<table style="margin: 0 auto" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="text"> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Man.</i> My lord don Carlos, what brings your express?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Alonzo's glory, and the Moor's defeat.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The field is strew'd with twice ten thousand slain,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Though he suspects his measures were betray'd,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He'll soon arrive. Oh, how I long t' embrace</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The first of heroes, and the best of friends!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I lov'd fair Leonora long before</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The chance of battle gave me to the Moors,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">From whom so late Alonzo set me free;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And while I groan'd in bondage, I deputed</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">This great Alonzo, whom her father honours,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To be my gentle advocate in love,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To stir her heart, and fan its fires for me.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Man.</i> And what success?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Alas, the cruel maid—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Indeed her father, who, though high in court,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And pow'rful with the king, has wealth at heart</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To heal his devastations from the Moors,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Knowing I'm richly freighted from the east,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My fleet now sailing in the sight of Spain,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">(Heav'n guard it safe through such a dreadful storm!)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Caresses me, and urges her to wed.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Man.</i> Her aged father, see,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Leads her this way.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> She looks like radiant truth,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Brought forward by the hand of hoary time—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">You to the port with speed; 'tis possible</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Some vessel is arriv'd. Heav'n grant it bring</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Tidings which Carlos may receive with joy!<span class="ind3">[<i>exit D. M.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Don Alvarez and Leonora.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alv.</i> Don Carlos, I am lab'ring in your favour</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">With all a parent's soft authority,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And earnest counsel.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Angels second you!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For all my bliss or mis'ry hangs on it.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alv.</i> Daughter, the happiness of life depends</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">On our discretion, and a prudent choice.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Look into those they call unfortunate,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And, closer view'd, you'll find they are unwise:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Some flaw in their own conduct lies beneath.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Don Carlos is of ancient, noble blood,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And then his wealth might mend a prince's fortune.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For him the sun is lab'ring in the mines,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A faithful slave, and turning earth to gold:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">His keels are freighted with that sacred pow'r,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">By which e'en kings and emperors are made.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Sir, you have my good wishes, and I hope</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My daughter is not indispos'd to hear you.<span class="ind3">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Oh, Leonora! why art thou in tears?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Because I am less wretched than I was?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Before your father gave me leave to woo you,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Hush'd was your bosom, and your eye serene.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Think you my father too indulgent to me,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That he claims no dominion o'er my tears?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A daughter sure may be right dutiful,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Whose tears alone are free from a restraint.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Had I known this before it had been well:</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I had not then solicited your father</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To add to my distress;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Have I not languish'd prostrate at thy feet?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Have I not liv'd whole days upon thy sight?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Have I not seen thee where thou hast not been?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And, mad with the idea, clasp'd the wind,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And doated upon nothing?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Court me not,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Good Carlos, by recounting of my faults,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And telling how ungrateful I have been.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Alas, my lord, if talking would prevail,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I could suggest much better arguments</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Than those regards you threw away on me;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Your valour, honour, wisdom, prais'd by all.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But bid physicians talk our veins to temper,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And with an argument new-set a pulse;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Then think, my lord, of reas'ning into love.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Must I despair then? do not shake me thus:</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My temper-beaten heart is cold to death.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ah, turn, and let me warm me in thy beauties.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Heav'ns! what a proof I gave, but two nights past,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of matchless love! To fling me at thy feet,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I slighted friendship, and I flew from fame;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nor heard the summons of the next day's battle:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But darting headlong to thy arms, I left</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The promis'd fight, I left Alonzo too,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To stand the war, and quell a world alone.<span class="ind3">[<i>trumpets.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> The victor comes. My lord, I must withdraw.</span><span class="ind2">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Don Alonzo.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Alonzo!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Carlos!—I am whole again;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Clasp'd in thy arms, it makes my heart entire.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Whom dare I thus embrace? The conqueror</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of Afric.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Yes, much more—Don Carlos' friend.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The conquest of the world would cost me dear,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Should it beget one thought of distance in thee.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I rise in virtues to come nearer to thee.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I conquer with Don Carlos in mine eye,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And thus I claim my victory's reward.<span class="ind3">[<i>embraces him.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> A victory indeed! your godlike arm</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Has made one spot the grave of Africa;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Such numbers fell! and the survivors fled</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">As frighted passengers from off the strand,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When the tempestuous sea comes roaring on them.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> 'Twas Carlos conquer'd, 'twas his cruel chains</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Inflam'd me to a rage unknown before,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And threw my former actions far behind.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> I love fair Leonora. How I love her!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Yet still I find (I know not how it is)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Another heart, another soul, for thee.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Zanga.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Manuel, my lord, returning from the port,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">On business both of moment and of haste,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Humbly begs leave to speak in private with you.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> In private!—Ha!—Alonzo, I'll return;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">No business can detain me long from thee.<span class="ind3">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> My lord Alonzo, I obey'd your orders.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Will the fair Leonora pass this way?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> She will, my lord, and soon.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Come near me, Zanga;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For I dare open all my heart to thee.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Never was such a day of triumph known!—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">There's not a wounded captive in my train,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That slowly follow'd my proud chariot wheels,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">With half a life, and beggary, and chains.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But is a god to me: I am most wretched.—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In his captivity, thou know'st, don Carlos,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My friend (and never was a friend more dear)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Deputed me his advocate in love,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To talk to Leonora's heart, and make</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A tender party in her thoughts for him.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What did I do?—I lov'd myself. Indeed,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">One thing there is might lessen my offence</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">(If such offence admits of being lessen'd);</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I thought him dead; for (by what fate I know not)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">His letters never reach'd me.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Thanks to Zanga,</span><span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Who thence contriv'd that evil which has happen'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Yes, curs'd of heav'n! I lov'd myself, and now,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In a late action, rescu'd from the Moors,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I have brought home my rival in my friend.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> We hear, my lord, that in that action too,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Your interposing arm preserv'd his life.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> It did—with more than the expense of mine:</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For, oh, this day is mention'd for their nuptials.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But see, she comes; I'll take my leave, and die.<span class="ind3">[<i>retires.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Hadst thou a thousand lives, thy death would please me.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Unhappy fate! my country overcome!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My six years' hope of vengeance quite expir'd!—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Would nature were—I will not fall alone:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But others' groans shall tell the world my death.<span class="ind3">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Leonora.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> When nature ends with anguish like to this,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Sinners shall take their last leave of the sun,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And bid his light adieu.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> The mighty conqueror</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Dismay'd! I thought you gave the foe your sorrows.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, cruel insult! are those tears your sport,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Which nothing but a love for you could draw?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Afric I quell'd, in hope by that to purchase</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Your leave to sigh unscorn'd; but I complain not;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Twas but a world, and you are—Leonora.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> That passion which you boast of is your guilt,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A treason to your friend. You think mean of me,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To plead your crimes as motives of my love.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> You, madam, ought to thank those crimes you blame!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis they permit you to be thus inhuman,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Without the censure both of earth and heav'n—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I fondly thought a last look might be kind.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Farewell for ever.—This severe behaviour</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Has, to my comfort, made it sweet to die.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Farewell for ever! Sweet to die! Oh, heav'n!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Alonzo, stay; you must not thus escape me;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But hear your guilt at large.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, Leonora!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What could I do?—In duty to my friend,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I saw you; and to see is to admire.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For Carlos did I plead, and most sincerely.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Witness the thousand agonies it cost me.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">You know I did; I sought but your esteem;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If that is guilt, an angel had been guilty.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> If from your guilt none suffer'd but yourself,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It might be so—Farewell.<span class="ind6">[<i>going.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Who suffers with me?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Enjoy your ignorance, and let me go.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> What mean these tears?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> I weep by chance; nor have my tears a meaning.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But, oh, when first I saw Alonzo's tears,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I knew their meaning well!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">[<i>Alonzo falls on his knees, and takes her hand.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Heav'ns! what is this? that excellence, for which</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Desire was planted in the heart of man;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Virtue's supreme reward on this side heav'n;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The cordial of my soul—and this destroys me—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Indeed, I flatter'd me that thou didst hate.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Alonzo, pardon me the injury</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of loving you. I struggled with my passion,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And struggled long: let that be some excuse.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Unkind! you know I think your love a blessing</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Beyond all human blessings! 'tis the price</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of sighs and groans, and a whole year of dying.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But, oh, the curse of curses!—Oh, my friend!—</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Alas!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> What says my love? speak, Leonora.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Was it for you, my lord, to be so quick</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In finding out objections to our love?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Think you so strong my love, or weak my virtue,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It was unsafe to leave that part to me?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Is not the day then fix'd for your espousals?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Indeed, my father once had thought that way;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But marking how the marriage pain'd my heart,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Long he stood doubtful; but at last resolv'd</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Your counsel, which determines him in all,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Should finish the debate.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, agony!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Must I not only lose her, but be made</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Myself the instrument? not only die,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But plunge the dagger in my heart myself?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">This is refining on calamity.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> What, do you tremble lest you should be mine?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For what else can you tremble? not for that</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My father places in your power to alter.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> What's in my pow'r? oh, yes, to stab my friend!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> To stab your friend were barbarous indeed!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Spare him—and murder me.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> First perish all!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">No, Leonora, I am thine for ever.<span class="ind3">[<i>embraces her.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Hold, Alonzo,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And hear a maid whom doubly thou hast conquer'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I love thy virtue as I love thy person,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And I adore thee for the pains it gave me;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But as I felt the pains, I'll reap the fruit;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I'll shine out in my turn, and show the world</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thy great example was not lost upon me.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nay, never shrink; take back the bright example</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">You lately lent; Oh, take it while you may,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">While I can give it you, and be immortal!<span class="ind3">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> She's gone, and I shall see that face no more;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But pine in absence, and till death adore.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When with cold dew my fainting brow is hung,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And my eyes darken, from my falt'ring tongue</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Her name will tremble in a feeble moan,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And love with fate divide my dying groan.<span class="ind3">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +</table> +</div> +<p> </p> +<hr class="minimal" /> +<p> </p> + +<h3>ACT THE SECOND.</h3> + +<h5>SCENE I.<span class="ind1">THE SAME.</span></h5> + +<div class="center"> +<p class="noindent"><i>Enter Don Manuel and Zanga.</i></p> +</div> + +<div class="center"> +<table style="margin: 0 auto" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="text"> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> If this be true, I cannot blame your pain</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For wretched Carlos; 'tis but humane in you.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But when arriv'd your dismal news?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Man.</i> This hour.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> What, not a vessel sav'd?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Man.</i> All, all, the storm</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Devour'd; and now o'er his late envy'd fortune</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The dolphins bound, and wat'ry mountains roar,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Triumphant in his ruin.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Is Alvarez</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Determin'd to deny his daughter to him.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That treasure was on shore; must that too join</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The common wreck?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Man.</i> Alvarez pleads, indeed,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That Leonora's heart is disinclin'd,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And pleads that only; so it was this morning,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When he coucurr'd: the tempest broke the match;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And sunk his favour, when it sunk the gold.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The love of gold is double in his heart;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The vice of age, and of Alvarez too.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> How does don Carlos bear it?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Man.</i> Like a man</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Whose heart feels most a human heart can feel,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And reasons best a human head can reason.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> But is he then in absolute despair?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Man.</i> Never to see his Leonora more.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And, quite to quench all future hope, Alvarez</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Urges Alonzo to espouse his daughter</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">This very day; for he has learn'd their loves.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Ha! was not that receiv'd with ecstasy</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">By don Alonzo?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Man.</i> Yes, at first; but soon</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A damp came o'er him, it would kill his friend.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Not if his friend consented: and since now</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He can't himself espouse her—</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Man.</i> Yet, to ask it</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Has something shocking to a gen'rous mind;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">At least, Alonzo's spirit startles at it.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Wide is the distance between our despair,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And giving up a mistress to another.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But I must leave you. Carlos wants support</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In his severe affliction.<span class="ind6">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Ha, it dawns!—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It rises to me, like a new-found world</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To mariners long time distress'd at sea,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Sore from a storm, and all their viands spent;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Or like the sun just rising out of chaos,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Some dregs of ancient night not quite purg'd off.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But shall I finish it?—Hoa, Isabella!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Isabella.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I thought of dying; better things come forward;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Vengeance is still alive! from her dark covert,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">With all her snakes erect upon her crest,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">She stalks in view, and fires me with her charms.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When, Isabella, arriv'd don Carlos here?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> Two nights ago.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> That was the very night</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Before the battle—Mem'ry, set down that;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It has the essence of a crocodile,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Though yet but in the shell—I'll give it birth—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What time did he return?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> At midnight.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> So—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Say, did he see that night his Leonora?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> No, my good lord.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> No matter—tell me, woman,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Is not Alonzo rather brave than cautious,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Honest than subtle, above fraud himself,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Slow, therefore, to suspect it in another?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> You best can judge; but so the world thinks of him.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Why, that was well—go, fetch my tablets hither.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">[<i>exit Isabella.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Two nights ago my father's sacred shade</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thrice stalk'd around my bed, and smil'd upon me:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He smil'd, a joy then little understood—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It must be so—and if so, it is vengeance</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Worth waking of the dead for.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Re-enter Isabella, with the tablets; Zanga writes,</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>then reads as to himself.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thus it stands—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The father's fix'd—Don Carlos cannot wed—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Alonzo may—but that will hurt his friend—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nor can he ask his leave—or, if he did,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He might not gain it—It is hard to give</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Our own consent to ills, though we must bear them.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Were it not then a master-piece worth all</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The wisdom I can boast, first to persuade</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Alonzo to request it of his friend,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">His friend to grant—then from that very grant,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The strongest proof of friendship man can give</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">(And other motives), to work out a cause</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of jealousy, to rack Alonzo's peace?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I have turn'd o'er the catalogue of human woes,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Which sting the heart of man, and find none equal.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It is the hydra of calamities,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The sev'nfold death; the jealous are the damn'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, jealousy, each other passion's calm</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To thee, thou conflagration of the soul!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thou king of torments, thou grand counterpoise</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For all the transports beauty can inspire!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> Alonzo comes this way.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Most opportunely.—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Withdraw.<span class="ind8">[<i>exit Isabella.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Don Alonzo.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My lord, I give you joy.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Of what, good Zanga?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Is not the lovely Leonora yours?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> What will become of Carlos?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> He's your friend;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And since he can't espouse the fair himself,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Will take some comfort from Alonzo's fortune.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Alas, thou little know'st the force of love!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Love reigns a sultan with unrival'd sway;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Puts all relations, friendship's self to death,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If once he's jealous of it. I love Carlos;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Yet well I know what pangs I felt this morning</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">At his intended nuptials. For myself</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I then felt pains, which now for him I feel.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> You will not wed her then?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Not instantly.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Insult his broken heart the very moment!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> I understand you: but you'll wed hereafter,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When your friend's gone, and his first pain assuag'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Am I to blame in that?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> My lord, I love</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Your very errors; they are born from virtue.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Your friendship (and what nobler passion claims</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The heart?) does lead you blindfold to your ruin.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Consider, wherefore did Alvarez break</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Don Carlos' match, and wherefore urge Alonzo's?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Twas the same cause, the love of wealth. To-morrow</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">May see Alonzo in don Carlos' fortune;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A higher bidder is a better friend,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And there are princes sigh for Leonora.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When your friend's gone, you'll wed; why, then the cause</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Which gives you Leonora now, will cease.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Carlos has lost her; should you lose her too,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Why, then you heap new torments on your friend,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">By that respect which labour'd to relieve him—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis well, he is disturb'd; it makes him pause.<span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Think'st thou, my Zanga, should I ask don Carlos,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">His goodness would consent that I should wed her?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> I know, it would.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> But then the cruelty</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To ask it, and for me to ask it of him!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Methinks, you are severe upon your friend.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Who was it gave him liberty and life?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> That is the very reason which forbids it.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Were I a stranger I could freely speak:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In me it so resembles a demand,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Exacting of a debt, it shocks my nature.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> My lord, you know the sad alternative.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Is Leonora worth one pang or not?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It hurts not me, my lord, but as I love you:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Warmly as you I wish don Carlos well;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But I am likewise don Alonzo's friend:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">There all the diff'rence lies between us two.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In me, my lord, you hear another self;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And, give me leave to add, a better too,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Clear'd from those errors, which, though caus'd by virtue,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Are such as may hereafter give you pain—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Don Lopez of Castile would not demur thus.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Perish the name! What, sacrifice the fair</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To age and ugliness, because set in gold?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I'll to don Carlos, if my heart will let me.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I have not seen him since his sore affliction;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But shunn'd it, as too terrible to bear.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How shall I bear it now? I'm struck already.<span class="ind3">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Half of my work is done. I must secure</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Don Carlos, ere Alonzo speak with him.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">[<i>he gives a message to a Servant, then returns.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Proud, hated Spain, oft drench'd in Moorish blood!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Dost thou not feel a deadly foe within thee?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Shake not the tow'rs where'er I pass along,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Conscious of ruin, and their great destroyer?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Shake to the centre, if Alonzo's dear.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Look down, oh, holy prophet! see me torture</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">This Christian dog, this infidel, who dares</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To smite thy votaries, and spurn thy law;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And yet hopes pleasure from two radiant eyes,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Which look as they were lighted up for thee!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Shall he enjoy thy paradise below?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Blast the bold thought, and curse him with her charms!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But see, the melancholy lover comes.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Don Carlos.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Hope, thou hast told me lies from day to day</span>,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For more than twenty years; vile promiser!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">None here are happy, but the very fool,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Or very wise: I am not fool enough</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To smile in vanities, and hug a shadow;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nor have I wisdom to elaborate</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">An artificial happiness from pains:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ev'n joys are pains, because they cannot last.<span class="ind3">[<i>sighs.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How many lift the head, look gay and smile,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Against their consciences? And this we know,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Yet, knowing, disbelieve, and try again</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What we have try'd, and struggle with conviction.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Each new experience gives the former credit;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And rev'rend grey threescore is but a voucher,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That thirty told us true.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> My noble lord,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I mourn your fate: but are no hopes surviving?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> No hopes. Alvarez has a heart of steel.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis fix'd—'tis past—'tis absolute despair!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> You wanted not to have your heart made tender,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">By your own pains, to feel a friend's distress.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> I understand you well. Alonzo loves;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I pity him.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> I dare be sworn you do.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Yet he has other thoughts.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> What canst thou mean?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Indeed he has; and fears to ask a favour</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A stranger from a stranger might request;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What costs you nothing, yet is all to him:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nay, what indeed will to your glory add,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For nothing more than wishing your friend well.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> I pray be plain; his happiness is mine.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> He loves to death; but so reveres his friend,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He can't persuade his heart to wed the maid</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Without your leave, and that he fears to ask.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In perfect tenderness I urg'd him to it.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Knowing the deadly sickness of his heart,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Your overflowing goodness to your friend,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Your wisdom, and despair yourself to wed her,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I wrung a promise from him he would try:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And now I come, a mutual friend to both,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Without his privacy, to let you know it,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And to prepare you kindly to receive him.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Ha! if he weds, I am undone indeed;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Not don Alvarez' self can then relieve me.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Alas, my lord, you know his heart is steel:</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">"'Tis fixed, 'tis past, 'tis absolute despair."</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Oh, cruel heav'n! and is it not enough</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That I must never, never see her more?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Say, is it not enough that I must die;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But I must be tormented in the grave?—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ask my consent!—Must I then give her to him?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Lead to his nuptial sheets the blushing maid?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh!—Leonora! never, never, never!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> A storm of plagues upon him! he refuses.</span><span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> What, wed her—and to-day?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> To-day, or never.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To-morrow may some wealthier lover bring,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And then Alonzo is thrown out like you:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Then whom shall he condemn for his misfortune?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Carlos is an Alvarez to his love.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Oh, torment! whither shall I turn?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> To peace.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Which is the way?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> His happiness is yours——</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I dare not disbelieve you.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Kill my friend!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Or worse—Alas! and can there be a worse?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A worse there is: nor can my nature bear it.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> You have convinc'd me 'tis a dreadful task.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I find Alonzo's quitting her this morning</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For Carlos' sake, in tenderness to you,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Betray'd me to believe it less severe</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Than I perceive it is.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Thou dost upbraid me.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> No, my good lord; but since you can't comply,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis my misfortune that I mention'd it;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For had I not, Alonzo would indeed</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Have died, as now, but not by your decree.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> By my decree! Do I decree his death?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I do—Shall I then lead her to his arms?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, which side shall I take? Be stabb'd, or—stab?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis equal death! a choice of agonies!——</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ah, no!—all other agonies are ease</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To one—O Leonora!—never, never!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Go, Zanga, go, defer the dreadful trial,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Though but a day; something, perchance, may happen</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To soften all to friendship and to love.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Go, stop my friend, let me not see him now;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But save us from an interview of death.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> My lord, I'm bound in duty to obey you——</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If I not bring him, may Alonzo prosper!<span class="ind3">[<i>aside, exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> What is this world?—Thy school, oh, misery!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Our only lesson is to learn to suffer;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And he who knows not that was born for nothing.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But put it most severely—should I live—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Live long—alas, there is no length in time!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nor in thy time, oh, man!—What's fourscore years</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nay, what, indeed, the age of time itself,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Since cut from out eternity's wide round?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Yet Leonora—she can make time long,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Its nature alter, as she alter'd mine.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">While in the lustre of her charms I lay,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Whole summer suns roll'd unperceiv'd away;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">I years for days, and days for moments, told,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">And was surpris'd to hear that I grew old.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Now fate does rigidly its dues regain,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">And ev'ry moment is an age of pain.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Zanga and Don Alonzo; Zanga stops Don Carlos.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Is this don Carlos? this the boasted friend?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How can you turn your back upon his sadness?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Look on him, and then leave him if you can.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> I cannot yield; nor can I bear his griefs.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Alonzo!<span class="ind3">[<i>goes to him, and takes his hand.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, Carlos!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Pray, forbear.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Art thou undone, and shall Alonzo smile?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Alonzo, who, perhaps, in some degree</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Contributed to cause thy dreadful fate?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I was deputed guardian of thy love;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But, oh! I lov'd myself! Pour down, afflictions!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">On this devoted head; make me your mark;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And be the world by my example taught,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How sacred it should hold the name of friend.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> You charge yourself unjustly: well I know</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The only cause of my severe affliction.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Alvarez, curs'd Alvarez!—So much anguish</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Felt for so small a failure, is one merit</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Which faultless virtue wants. The crime was mine,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Who plac'd thee there, where only thou couldst fail;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Though well I knew that dreadful post of honour</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I gave thee to maintain. Ah! who could bear</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Those eyes unhurt? The wounds myself have felt</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">(Which wounds alone should cause me to condemn thee,)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">They plead in thy excuse; for I too strove</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To shun those fires, and found 'twas not in man.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> You cast in shades the failure of a friend,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And soften all; but think not you deceive me;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I know my guilt, and I implore your pardon,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">As the sole glimpse I can obtain of peace.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Pardon for him, who but this morning threw</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Fair Leonora from his heart, all bath'd</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In ceaseless tears, and blushing for her love!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Who, like a rose-leaf wet with morning dew,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Would have stuck close, and clung for ever there!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But 'twas in thee, through fondness for thy friend,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To shut thy bosom against ecstacies;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For which, while this pulse beats, it beats to thee;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">While this blood flows, it flows for my Alonzo,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And every wish is levell'd at thy joy.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> [<i>to Alon.</i>] My lord, my lord, this is your time to speak.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> [<i>to Zan.</i>] Because he's kind? It therefore is the worst;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Do I not see him quite possess'd with anguish,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And shall I pour in new? No, fond desire;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">No, love: one pang at parting, and farewell,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I have no other love but Carlos now.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Alas! my friend, why with such eager grasp</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Dost press my hand, and weep upon my cheek?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> If, after death, our forms (as some believe)</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Shall be transparent, naked every thought,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And friends meet friends, and read each other's hearts,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thou'lt know one day that thou wast held most dear,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Farewell.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Alonzo, stop—he cannot speak—</span><span class="ind3">[<i>holds him.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Lest it should grieve me—Shall I be outdone?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And lose in glory, as I lose in love?<span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I take it much unkindly, my Alonzo,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">You think so meanly of me not to speak,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When well I know your heart is near to bursting.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Have you forgot how you have bound me to you?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Your smallest friendship's liberty and life.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> There, there it is, my friend; it cuts me there.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How dreadful is it to a generous mind</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To ask, when sure it cannot be deny'd!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> How greatly thought! In all he towers above me.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">[<i>aside.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Then you confess you would ask something of me?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> No, on my soul.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> [<i>to Alon.</i>] Then lose her.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Glorious spirit!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Why, what a pang has he run through for this!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">By heaven, I envy him his agonies.<span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My Alonzo!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Since thy great soul disdains to make request,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Receive with favour that I make to thee.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> What means my Carlos?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Pray observe me well.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Fate and Alvarez tore her from my heart,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And, plucking up my love, they had well nigh</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Pluck'd up life too, for they were twin'd together.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of that no more—What now does reason bid?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I cannot wed—Farewell, my happiness!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But, O my soul, with care provide for hers!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In life, how weak, how helpless, is a woman!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Take then my heart in dowry with the fair,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Be thou her guardian, and thou must be mine;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Shut out the thousand pressing ills of life</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">With thy surrounding arms—Do this, and then</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Set down the liberty and life thou gav'st me,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">As little things, as essays of thy goodness,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And rudiments of friendship so divine.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> There is a grandeur in thy goodness to me,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Which with thy foes would render thee ador'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> I do not part with her, I give her thee.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> O, Carlos!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But think not words were ever made</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For such occasions. Silence, tears, embraces,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Are languid eloquence; I'll seek relief</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In absence from the pain of so much goodness,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">There, thank the blest above, thy sole superiors,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Adore, and raise my thoughts of them by thee.<span class="ind3">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Thus far success has crown'd my boldest hope.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My next care is to hasten these new nuptials,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And then my master-works begin to play.<span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Why that was greatly done, without one sigh<span class="ind2">[<i>to Car.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To carry such a glory to its period.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Car.</i> Too soon thou praisest me. He's gone, and now</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I must unsluice my over-burden'd heart,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And let it flow. I would not grieve my friend</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">With tears; nor interrupt my great design;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Great, sure, as ever human breast durst think of.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But now my sorrows, long with pain supprest,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Burst their confinement with impetuous sway,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">O'er-swell all bounds, and bear e'en life away:</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">So till the day was won, the Greek renown'd</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">With anguish wore the arrow in his wound,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Then drew the shaft from out his tortur'd side,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Let gush the torrent of his blood, and dy'd.</span><span class="ind2">[<i>exeunt.</i></span></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p> </p> +<hr class="minimal" /> +<p> </p> + +<h3>ACT THE THIRD.</h3> + +<h5>SCENE I.</h5> + +<div class="center"> +<p class="noindent"><i>Enter Zanga.</i></p> +</div> + +<div class="center"> +<table style="margin: 0 auto" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="text"> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> O joy, thou welcome stranger! twice three years</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I have not felt thy vital beam; but now</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It warms my veins, and plays around my heart:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A fiery instinct lifts me from the ground,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And I could mount!—the spirits numberless</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of my dear countrymen, which yesterday</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Left their poor bleeding bodies on the field,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Are all assembled here, and o'er-inform me.—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">O, bridegroom! great indeed thy present bliss;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Yet even by me unenvy'd! for be sure</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It is thy last, thy last smile, that which now</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Sits on thy cheek; enjoy it while thou may'st;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Anguish, and groans, and death, bespeak to-morrow.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Isabella.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My Isabella!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> What commands my Moor?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> My fair ally! my lovely minister!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Twas well, Alvarez, by my arts impell'd</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">(To plunge don Carlos in the last despair,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And so prevent all future molestation),</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Finish'd the nuptials soon as he resolv'd them;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">This conduct ripen'd all for me and ruin.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Scarce had the priest the holy rites perform'd,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When I, by sacred inspiration, forg'd</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That letter which I trusted to thy hand;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That letter, which in glowing terms conveys,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">From happy Carlos to fair Leonora,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The most profound acknowledgement of heart,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For wondrous transports which he never knew.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">This is a good subservient artifice,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To aid the nobler workings of my brain.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> I quickly dropp'd it in the bride's apartment,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">As you commanded.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> With a lucky hand;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For soon Alonzo found it; I observ'd him</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">From out my secret stand. He took it up;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But scarce was it unfolded to his sight,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When he, as if an arrow pierc'd his eye,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Started, and trembling dropp'd it on the ground.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Pale and aghast awhile my victim stood,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Disguis'd a sigh or two, and puff'd them from him;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Then rubb'd his brow and took it up again.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">At first he look'd as if he meant to read it;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But check'd by rising fears he crush'd it thus,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And thrust it, like an adder, in his bosom.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> But if he read it not, it cannot sting him,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">At least not mortally.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> At first I thought so;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But farther thought informs me otherwise,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And turns this disappointment to account.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">This, Isabella, is don Carlos' picture;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Take it, and so dispose of it, that found,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It may raise up a witness of her love;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Under her pillow, in her cabinet,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Or elsewhere, as shall best promote our end.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> I'll weigh it as its consequence requires,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Then do my utmost to deserve your smile.<span class="ind3">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Is that Alonzo prostrate on the ground?—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Now he starts up like flame from sleeping embers,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And wild distraction glares from either eye.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If thus a slight surmise can work his soul,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How will the fulness of the tempest tear him?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Don Alonzo.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> And yet it cannot be—I am deceiv'd—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I injure her: she wears the face of heaven.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> He doubts.</span><span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> I dare not look on this again.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If the first glance, which gave suspicion only,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Had such effect, so smote my heart and brain,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The certainty would dash me all in pieces.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It cannot—Ha! it must, it must be true.<span class="ind3">[<i>starts.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Hold there, and we succeed. He has descry'd me.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And (for he thinks I love him) will unfold</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">His aching heart, and rest it on my counsel.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I'll seem to go, to make my stay more sure.<span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Hold, Zanga, turn.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> My lord.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Shut close the doors,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That not a spirit find an entrance here.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> My lord's obey'd.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> I see that thou art frighted.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If thou dost love me, I shall fill thy heart</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">With scorpions' stings.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> If I do love, my lord?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Come near me, let me rest upon thy bosom;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">(What pillow like the bosom of a friend?)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For I am sick at heart.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Speak, sir, O, speak,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And take me from the rack.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> I am most happy: mine is victory,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Mine the king's favour, mine the nation's shout,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And great men make their fortunes of my smiles.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">O curse of curses! in the lap of blessing</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To be most curst!—My Leonora's false!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Save me, my lord!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> My Leonora's false!</span><span class="ind3">[<i>gives him the letter.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Then heaven has lost its image here on earth.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">[<i>while Zanga reads the letter, he trembles, and<br /> +shows the utmost concern.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Good-natur'd man! he makes my pains his own.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I durst not read it; but I read it now</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In thy concern.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Did you not read it then?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Mine eye just touch'd it, and could bear no more.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Thus perish all that gives Alonzo pain!</span><span class="ind1">[<i>tears the letter.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Why didst thou tear it?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Think of it no more.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Twas your mistake, and groundless are your fears.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> And didst thou tremble then for my mistake?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Or give the whole contents, or by the pangs</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That feed upon my heart, thy life's in danger.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Is this Alonzo's language to his Zanga?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Draw forth your sword, and find the secret here.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For whose sake is it, think you, I conceal it?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Wherefore this rage? Because I seek your peace?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I have no interest in suppressing it,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But what good-natur'd tenderness for you</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Obliges me to have. Not mine the heart</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That will be rent in two. Not mine the fame</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That will be damn'd, though all the world should know it.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Then my worst fears are true, and life is past.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> What has the rashness of my passion utter'd?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I know not what; but rage is our destruction,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And all its words are wind—Yet sure, I think,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I nothing own'd—but grant I did confess,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What is a letter? letters may be forg'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For heav'n's sweet sake, my lord, lift up your heart.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Some foe to your repose—</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> So, heaven look on me,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">As I can't find the man I have offended.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Indeed! [<i>aside</i>]—Our innocence is not our shield.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">They take offence, who have not been offended;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">They seek our ruin too, who speak us fair,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And death is often ambush'd in their smiles.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis certain</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A letter may be forg'd, and in a point</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of such a dreadful consequence as this,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">One would rely on nought that might be false—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Think, have you any other cause to doubt her?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Away, you can find none. Resume your spirit;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">All's well again.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh that it were!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> It is;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For who could credit that, which, credited,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Makes hell superfluous by superior pains,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Without such proofs as cannot be withstood?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Has she not ever been to virtue train'd?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Is not her fame as spotless as the sun,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Her sex's envy, and the boast of Spain?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> O, Zanga! it is that confounds me most,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That, full in opposition to appearance—</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> No more, my lord, for you condemn yourself.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What is absurdity, but to believe</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Against appearance!—You can't yet, I find,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Subdue your passion to your better sense;—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And, truth to tell, it does not much displease me.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis fit our indiscretions should be check'd</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">With some degree of pain.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> What indiscretion?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Come, you must bear to hear your faults from me.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Had you not sent don Carlos to the court</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The night before the battle, that foul slave,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Who forg'd the senseless scroll which gives you pain,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Had wanted footing for his villany.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> I sent him not.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Not send him!—Ha!—That strikes me.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I thought he came on message to the king.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Is there another cause could justify</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">His shunning danger, and the promis'd fight?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But I perhaps may think too rigidly;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">So long an absence, and impatient love—</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> In my confusion, that had quite escap'd me.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">By heaven, my wounded soul does bleed afresh;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis clear as day—for Carlos is so brave,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He lives not but on fame, he hunts for danger,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And is enamour'd of the face of death.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How then could he decline the next day's battle,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But for the transports?—Oh, it must be so—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Inhuman! by the loss of his own honour,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To buy the ruin of his friend!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> You wrong him;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He knew not of your love.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Ha!—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> That stings home.</span><span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Indeed, he knew not of my treacherous love—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Proofs rise on proofs, and still the last the strongest.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Love is my torture, love was first my crime;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For she was his, my friend's, and he (O horror!)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Confided all in me. O sacred faith!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How dearly I abide thy violation!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Were then their loves far gone?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> The father's will</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">There bore a total sway; and he, as soon</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">As news arriv'd that Carlos' fleet was seen</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">From off our coast, fir'd with the love of gold,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Determin'd that the very sun which saw</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Carlos' return, should see his daughter wed.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Indeed, my lord; then you must pardon me,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If I presume to mitigate the crime.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Consider, strong allurements soften guilt;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Long was his absence, ardent was his love,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">At midnight his return, the next day destin'd</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For his espousals—'twas a strong temptation.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Temptation!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> 'Twas but gaining of one night.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> One night!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> That crime could ne'er return again.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Again! By heaven, thou dost insult thy lord.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Temptation! One night gain'd! O stings and death!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And am I then undone? Alas, my Zanga!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And dost thou own it too? Deny it still,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And rescue me one moment from distraction.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> My lord, I hope the best.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> False, foolish hope, thou know'st it false;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It is as glaring as the noon-tide sun.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Devil!—This morning, after three years' coldness,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To rush at once into a passion for me!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Twas time to feign, 'twas time to get another,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When her first fool was sated with her beauties.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> What says my lord? Did Leonora then</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Never before disclose her passion for you?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Never.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Throughout the whole three years?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> O never! never!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Why, Zanga, shouldst thou strive? 'Tis all in vain:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Though thy soul labours, it can find no reed</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For hope to catch at. Ah! I'm plunging down</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ten thousand thousand fathoms in despair.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Hold, sir, I'll break your fall—wave ev'ry fear,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And be a man again—Had he enjoy'd her,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Be most assur'd, he had resign'd her to you</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">With less reluctance.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Ha! Resign'd her to me!—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Resign her!—Who resign'd her?—Double death!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How could I doubt so long? My heart is broke.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">First love her to distraction! then resign her!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> But was it not with utmost agony?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Grant that, he still resign'd her; that's enough.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Would he pluck out his eye to give it me?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Tear out his heart?—She was his heart no more—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nor was it with reluctance he resign'd her;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">By heav'n, he ask'd, he courted, me to wed.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I thought it strange; 'tis now no longer so.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Was't his request? Are you right sure of that?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I fear the letter was not all a tale.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> A tale! There's proof equivalent to sight.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> I should distrust my sight on this occasion.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> And so should I; by heav'n, I think I should.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What, Leonora! the divine, by whom</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">We guess'd at angels! Oh! I'm all confusion.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> You now are too much ruffled to think clearly.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Since bliss and horror, life and death, hang on it,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Go to your chamber, there maturely weigh</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Each circumstance; consider, above all,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That it is jealousy's peculiar nature</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To swell small things to great; nay, out of nought</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To conjure much, and then to lose its reason</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Amid the hideous phantoms it has form'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Had I ten thousand lives, I'd give them all</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To be deceiv'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And yet she seem'd so pure, that I thought heav'n</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Borrow'd her form for virtue's self to wear,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To gain her lovers with the sons of men.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">O, Leonora! Leonora!<span class="ind6">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Re-enter Isabella.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Thus far it works auspiciously. My patient</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thrives, underneath my hand, in misery.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He's gone to think; that is, to be distracted.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> I overheard your conference, and saw you,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To my amazement, tear the letter.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> There,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">There, Isabella, I out-did myself.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For, tearing it, I not secure it only</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In its first force, but superadd a new.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For who can now the character examine</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To cause a doubt, much less detect the fraud?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And after tearing it, as loth to show</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The foul contents, if I should swear it now</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A forgery, my lord would disbelieve me,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nay, more, would disbelieve the more I swore.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But is the picture happily dispos'd of?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> It is.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> That's well—Ah! what is well? O pang to think!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">O dire necessity! is this my province?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Whither, my soul! ah! whither art thou sunk?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Does this become a soldier? this become</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Whom armies follow'd, and a people lov'd?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My martial glory withers at the thought.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But great my end; and since there are no other,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">These means are just, they shine with borrow'd light,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Illustrious from the purpose they pursue.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">And greater sure my merit, who, to gain</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">A point sublime, can such a task sustain;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">To wade through ways obscene, my honour bend,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">And shock my nature, to attain my end.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Late time shall wonder; that my joys will raise:</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">For wonder is involuntary praise.</span><span class="ind3">[<i>exeunt.</i></span></td></tr> +</table> +</div> +<p> </p> +<hr class="minimal" /> +<p> </p> + +<h3>ACT THE FOURTH.</h3> + +<h5>SCENE I.</h5> + +<div class="center"> +<p class="noindent"><i>Enter Don Alonzo and Zanga.</i></p> +</div> + +<div class="center"> +<table style="margin: 0 auto" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="text"> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, what a pain to think! when ev'ry thought,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Perplexing thought, in intricacies runs,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And reason knits th' inextricable toil,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In which herself is taken!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">No more I'll bear this battle of the mind,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">This inward anarchy; but find my wife</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And, to her trembling heart presenting death,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Force all the secret from her.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> O, forbear!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">You totter on the very brink of ruin.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> What dost thou mean?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> That will discover all,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And kill my hopes. What can I think or do?<span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> What, dost thou murmur?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Force the secret from her!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What's perjury to such a crime as this?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Will she confess it then? O, groundless hope!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But rest assur'd, she'll make this accusation,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Or false or true, your ruin with the king;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Such is her father's pow'r.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> No more, I care not;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Rather than groan beneath this load, I'll die.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> But for what better will you change this load?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Grant you should know it, would not that be worse?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> No; it would cure me of my mortal pangs</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">By hatred and contempt: I should despise her,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And all my love-bred agonies would vanish.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Ah! were I sure of that, my lord—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> What then?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> You should not hazard life to gain the secret.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> What dost thou mean? thou know'st I'm on the rack.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I'll not be play'd with; speak, if thou hast aught,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Or I this instant fly to Leonora.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> That is, to death. My lord, I am not yet</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Quite so far gone in guilt to suffer it;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Though gone too far, heav'n knows—'Tis I am guilty;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I have took pains, as you, I know, observ'd,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To hinder you from diving in the secret,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And turn'd aside your thoughts from the detection.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Thou dost confound me.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> I confound myself;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And frankly own, though to my shame I own it,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nought but your life in danger could have torn</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The secret out, and made me own my crime.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Speak quickly, Zanga, speak.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Not yet, dread sir:</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">First, I must be assur'd, that if you find</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The fair one guilty, scorn, as you assur'd me,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Shall conquer love and rage, and heal your soul.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh! 't will, by heav'n.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Alas! I fear it much,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And scarce can hope so far; but I of this</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Exact your solemn oath, that you'll abstain</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">From all self-violence, and save my lord.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> I trebly swear.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> You'll bear it like a man?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> A god.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Such have you been to me, these tears confess it;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And pour'd forth miracles of kindness on me:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And what amends is now within my pow'r,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But to confess, expose myself to justice,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And as a blessing claim my punishment?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Know then, don Carlos—</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> You cannot bear it.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Go on, I'll have it, though it blast mankind;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I'll have it all, and instantly. Go on.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Don Carlos did return at dead of night—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That night, by chance (ill chance for me) did I</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Command the watch that guards the palace gate.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He told me he had letters for the king,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Despatch'd from you.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> The villain lied!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> My lord,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I pray, forbear—Transported at his sight,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">After so long a bondage, and your friend,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">(Who could suspect him of an artifice?)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">No farther I inquir'd, but let him pass,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">False to my trust, at least imprudent in it.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Our watch reliev'd, I went into the garden,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">As is my custom, when the night's serene,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And took a moon-light walk: when soon I heard</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A rustling in an arbour that was near me.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I saw two lovers in each other's arms,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Embracing and embrac'd. Anon the man</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Arose; and, falling back some paces from her,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Gaz'd ardently awhile, then rush'd at once,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And, throwing all himself into her bosom,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">There softly sigh'd, "Oh, night of ecstasy!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When shall we meet again?"—Don Carlos then</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Led Leonora forth.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, oh, my heart!</span><span class="ind3">[<i>he sinks into a chair.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Groan on, and with the sound refresh my soul!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis through his heart; his knees smite one another:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis through his brain; his eye-balls roll in anguish.<span class="ind2">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My lord, my lord, why will you rack my soul?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, she was all!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My fame, my friendship, and my love of arms,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">All stoop'd to her; my blood was her possession.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Deep in the secret foldings of my heart</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">She liv'd with life, and far the dearer she:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To think on't is the torment of the damn'd,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And not to think on't is impossible.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> You said you'd bear it like a man.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> I do.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Am I not most distracted?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Pray, be calm.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> As hurricanes:—be thou assur'd of that.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Is this the wise Alonzo?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Villain, no:</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He died in the arbour—he was murder'd there!—</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Alas! he weeps.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Go, dig her grave!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> My lord!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> But that her blood's too hot, I would carouse it</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Around my bridal board!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> And I would pledge thee.</span><span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> But I may talk too fast. Pray let me think,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And reason mildly.—Wedded and undone</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Before one night descends.—Oh, hasty evil!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What friend to comfort me in my extreme!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Where's Carlos? why is Carlos absent from me?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Does he know what has happen'd?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> My lord!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, villain, villain, most accurst!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If thou didst know it, why didst let me wed?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Hear me, my lord; your anger will abate.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I knew it not:—I saw them in the garden;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But saw no more than you might well expect</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To see in lovers destin'd for each other.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">By heav'n, I thought their meeting innocent.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Who could suspect fair Leonora's virtue,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Till after-proofs conspir'd to blacken it?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Sad proofs, which came too late, which broke not out,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">(Eternal curses on Alvarez' haste!)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Till holy rites had made the wanton yours;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And then, I own, I labour'd to conceal it,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In duty and compassion to your peace.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Live now, be damn'd hereafter—for I want thee.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Let me think—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The jess'mine bower—'tis secret and remote:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Go, wait me there, and take thy dagger with thee.<span class="ind1">[<i>exit Zanga.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How sweet the sound still sings within my ear!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When shall we meet again?—To-night, in hell.<span class="ind3">[<i>going.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Leonora.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ha! I'm surprised! I stagger at her charms!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, angel-devil!—Shall I stab her now?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">No—It shall be as I at first determin'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To kill her now were half my vengeance lost.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Then I must now dissemble—if I can.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> My lord, excuse me; see, a second time</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I come in embassy from all your friends,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Whose joys are languid, uninspir'd by you.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> This moment, Leonora, I was coming</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To thee, and all—but sure, or I mistake,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Or thou canst well inspire my friends with joy.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> What says my lord?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Thou art exceeding fair.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Beauty alone is but of little worth;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But when the soul and body of a piece,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Both shine alike; then they obtain a price,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And are a fit reward for gallant actions,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Heaven's pay on earth for such great souls as yours;—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If fair and innocent, I am your due.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Innocent!</span><span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> How, my lord! I interrupt you.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> No, my best life! I must not part with thee—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">This hand is mine—Oh, what a hand is here!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">So soft, souls sink into it, and are lost!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> In tears, my lord?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> What less can speak my joy?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Why, I could gaze upon thy looks for ever,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And drink in all my being from thine eyes;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And I could snatch a flaming thunderbolt,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And hurl destruction!—</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> My lord, you fright me.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Is this the fondness of your nuptial hour?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Why, when I woo your hand, is it deny'd me?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Your very eyes, why are they taught to shun me?—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nay, my good lord, I have a title here,<span class="ind3">[<i>takes his hand.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And I will have it. Am I not your wife?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Have I not just authority to know</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That heart which I have purchas'd with my own?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Tell me the secret; I conjure you, tell me.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Speak then, I charge you speak, or I expire,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And load you with my death. My lord, my lord!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Ha, ha, ha!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">[<i>he breaks from her, and she sinks upon the floor.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Are these the joys which fondly I conceiv'd?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And is it thus a wedded life begins?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What did I part with, when I gave my heart?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I knew not that all happiness went with it.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Why did I leave my tender father's wing,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And venture into love? The maid that loves,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Goes out to sea upon a shatter'd plank,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And puts her trust in miracles for safety.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Where shall I sigh?—where pour out my complaint?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He that should hear, should succour, should redress,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He is the source of all.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Go to thy chamber;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I soon will follow; that which now disturbs thee</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Shall be clear'd up, and thou shalt not condemn me.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">[<i>exit Leonora.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, how like innocence she looks!—What, stab her!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And rush into her blood?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How then? why thus—no more; it is determin'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Re-enter Zanga.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> I fear, his heart has fail'd him. She must die.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Can I not rouse the snake that's in his bosom,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To sting out human nature, and effect it?<span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Those skies, through which it rolls, must all have end.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What then is man? the smallest part of nothing.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Day buries day; month, month; and year, the year.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Our life is but a chain of many deaths;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Can then death's self be fear'd? our life much rather.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Life is the desert, life the solitude.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Death joins us to the great majority:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis to be borne to Platos and to Cæsars;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis to be great for ever;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis pleasure, 'tis ambition, then to die.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> I think, my lord, you talk'd of death.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> I did.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> I give you joy, then Leonora's dead.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> No, Zanga; to shed a woman's blood</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Would stain my sword, and make my wars inglorious;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He who, superior to the checks of nature,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Dares make his life the victim of his reason,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Does in some sort that reason deify,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And take a flight at heaven.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Alas, my lord,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis not your reason, but her beauty, finds</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Those arguments, and throws you on your sword.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">You cannot close an eye that is so bright,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">You cannot strike a breast that is so soft,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That has ten thousand ecstasies in store—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For Carlos?—No, my lord, I mean for you.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, through my heart and marrow! pr'ythee, spare me,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nor more upbraid the weakness of thy lord:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I own, I try'd, I quarrell'd with my heart,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And push'd it on, and bid it give her death;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But, oh, her eyes struck first and murder'd me.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> I know not what to answer to my lord.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Farewell then, my best lord, since you must die.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, that I were to share your monument,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And in eternal darkness close these eyes</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Against those scenes which I am doom'd to suffer!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> What dost thou mean?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> And is it then unknown?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, grief of heart, to think that you should ask it!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Sure you distrust that ardent love I bear you,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Else could you doubt when you are laid in dust—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But it will cut my poor heart through and through,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To see those revel on your sacred tomb,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Who brought you thither by their lawless loves.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For there they'll revel, and exult to find</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Him sleep so fast, who else might mar their joys.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Distraction! But don Carlos well thou know'st</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Is sheath'd in steel, and bent on other thoughts.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> I'll work him to the murder of his friend.</span><span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Yes, till the fever of his blood returns,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">While her last kiss still glows upon his cheek.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But when he finds Alonzo is no more,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How will he rush, like lightning, to her arms!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">There sigh, there languish, there pour out his soul;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But not in grief—sad obsequies to thee!—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But thou wilt be at peace, nor see, nor hear,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The burning kiss, the sigh of ecstasy,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Their throbbing hearts that jostle one another:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thank heaven, these torments will be all my own.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> I'll ease thee of that pain. Let Carlos die;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">O'ertake him on the road, and see it done.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis my command.<span class="ind6">[<i>gives his signet.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> I dare not disobey.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> My Zanga, now I have thy leave to die.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Ah, sir! think, think again. Are all men buried</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In Carlos' grave? you know not womankind:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When once the throbbing of the heart has broke</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The modest zone, with which it first was ty'd,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Each man she meets will be a Carlos to her.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> That thought has more of hell than had the former.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Another, and another, and another!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And each shall cast a smile upon my tomb.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I am convinc'd; I must not, will not, die.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> You cannot die; nor can you murder her.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What then remains? In nature no third way,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But to forget, and so to love again.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> If you forgive, the world will call you good;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If you forget, the world will call you wise;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If you receive her to your grace again,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The world will call you—very, very kind.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Zanga, I understand thee well. She dies;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Though my arm tremble at the stroke, she dies.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> That's truly great. What think you 'twas set up</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The Greek and Roman name in such a lustre,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But doing right in stern despite to nature;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Shutting their ears to all her little cries,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When great, august, and godlike justice call'd?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">At Aulis, one pour'd out a daughter's life,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And gain'd more glory than by all his wars;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Another, slew a sister in just rage;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A third, the theme of all succeeding times,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Gave to the cruel axe a darling son:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nay more, for justice some devote themselves,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">As he at Carthage, an immortal name!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Yet there is one step left above them all,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Above their history, above their fable:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A wife, bride, mistress, unenjoy'd—do that,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And tread upon the Greek and Roman glory.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> 'Tis done!—Again new transports fire my brain:</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I had forgot it, 'tis my bridal night.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Friend, give me joy, we must be gay together;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">See that the festival be duly honour'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">And when with garlands the full bowl is crown'd,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">And music gives her elevating sound,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">And golden carpets spread the sacred floor,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">And a new day the blazing tapers pour,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Thou, Zanga, then my solemn friends invite,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">From the dark realms of everlasting night;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Call Vengeance, call the furies, call Despair,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">And Death, our chief-invited guest, be there;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">He, with pale hand, shall lead the bride, and spread</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Eternal curtains round our nuptial bed.</span><span class="ind3">[<i>exeunt.</i></span></td></tr> +</table> +</div> + +<p> </p> +<hr class="minimal" /> +<p> </p> + +<h3>ACT THE FIFTH.</h3> + +<h5>SCENE I.</h5> + +<div class="center"> +<p class="noindent"><i>Enter Alonzo, meeting Zanga.</i></p> +</div> + +<div class="center"> +<table style="margin: 0 auto" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="text"> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Is Carlos murder'd?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> I obey'd your order.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Six ruffians overtook him on the road;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He fought as he was wont, and four he slew.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Then sunk beneath an hundred wounds to death.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">His last breath blest Alonzo, and desir'd</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">His bones might rest near yours.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, Zanga! Zanga!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But I'll not think: for I must act, and thinking</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Would ruin me for action.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Where's Leonora then? Quick, answer me:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I'm deep in horrors, I'll be deeper still.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I find thy artifice did take effect,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And she forgives my late deportment to her.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> I told her, from your childhood you was wont,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">On any great surprise, but chiefly then</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When cause of sorrow bore it company,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To have your passion shake the seat of reason;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A momentary ill, which soon blew o'er:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Then did I tell her of don Carlos' death</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">(Wisely suppressing by what means he fell),</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And laid the blame on that. At first she doubted;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But such the honest artifice I us'd,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And such her ardent wish it should be true,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That she, at length, was fully satisfied.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But what design you, sir, and how?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> I'll tell thee.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thus I've ordain'd it. In the jess'mine bow'r,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The place which she dishonour'd with her guilt,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">There will I meet her; the appointment's made;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And calmly spread (for I can do it now)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The blackness of her crime before her sight;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And then, with all the cool solemnity</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of public justice, give her to the grave.<span class="ind3">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Why, get thee gone! horror and night go with thee.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Sisters of Acheron, go hand in hand,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Go dance around the bow'r, and close them;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And tell them, that I sent you to salute them</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Profane the ground; and for th' ambrosial rose,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And breath of jess'mine, let hemlock blacken,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And deadly nightshade poison, all the air.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For the sweet nightingale, may ravens croak,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Toads pant, and adders rustle through the leaves;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">May serpents winding up the trees let fall</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Their hissing necks upon them from above,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And mingle kisses—such as I would give them.<span class="ind5">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +</table> +</div> +<p> </p> +<h5>SCENE II. <span class="ind1">THE BOWER.</span></h5> + +<div class="center"> +<p class="noindent"><i>Enter Alonzo.—Leonora sleeping.</i></p> +</div> + +<div class="center"> +<table style="margin: 0 auto" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="text"> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Ye amaranths! ye roses, like the morn!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Sweet myrtles, and ye golden orange groves!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Why do you smile? Why do you look so fair?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Are ye not blighted as I enter in?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Did ever midnight ghosts assemble here?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Have these sweet echoes ever learn'd to groan?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Joy-giving, love-inspiring, holy bow'r!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Know, in thy fragrant bosom thou receiv'st</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A—murderer! Oh, I shall stain thy lilies,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And horror will usurp the seat of bliss.<span class="ind3">[<i>advances.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ha! she sleeps—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The day's uncommon heat has overcome her.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Then take, my longing eyes, your last, full gaze.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, what a sight is here! how dreadful fair!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Who would not think that being innocent?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Where shall I strike? who strikes her, strikes himself.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My own life-blood will issue at her wound.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But see, she smiles! I never shall smile more;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It strongly tempts me to a parting kiss.<span class="ind1">[<i>going, he starts back.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ha! smile again. She dreams of him she loves.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Curse on her charms! I'll stab her through them all.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">[<i>as he is going to strike, she wakes.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> My lord, your stay was long; and yonder lull</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of falling waters tempted me to rest,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Dispirited with noon's excessive heat.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Ye pow'rs! with what an eye she mends the day!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">While they were clos'd, I should have giv'n the blow.<span class="ind2">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> What says my lord?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Why, this Alonzo says:</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If love were endless, men were gods; 'tis that</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Does counterbalance travel, danger, pain—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis heav'n's expedient to make mortals bear</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The light, and cheat them of the peaceful grave.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Alas, my lord! why talk you of the grave?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Your friend is dead: in friendship you sustain</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A mighty loss; repair it with my love.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Thy love, thou piece of witchcraft! I would say,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thou brightest angel! I could gaze for ever.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But oh, those eyes! those murderers! Oh, whence,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Whence didst thou steal their burning orbs? from heaven?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thou didst; and 'tis religion to adore them.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> My best Alonzo, moderate your thoughts.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Extremes still fright me, though of love itself.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Extremes indeed! it hurry'd me away;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But I come home again—and now for justice—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And now for death—It is impossible—<span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I leave her to just heav'n.<span class="ind3">[<i>drops the dagger, goes off.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Ha, a dagger!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What dost thou say, thou minister of death?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What dreadful tale dost tell me?—Let me think—</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Zanga.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Death to my tow'ring hope! Oh! fall from high!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My close, long-labour'd scheme at once is blasted,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That dagger, found, will cause her to inquire;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Inquiry will discover all; my hopes</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of vengeance perish; I myself am lost—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Curse on the coward's heart; wither his hand,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Which held the steel in vain!—what can be done?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Where can I fix?—that's something still—'twill breed</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Fell rage and bitterness betwixt their souls,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Which may, perchance, grow up to greater evil:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If not, 'tis all I can—It shall be so—<span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Oh, Zanga, I am sinking in my fears!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Alonzo dropp'd this dagger as he left me,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And left me in a strange disorder too.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What can this mean? Angels preserve his life!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Yours, madam, yours.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> What, Zanga, dost thou say?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Carry you goodness then to such extremes,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">So blinded to the faults of him you love,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That you perceive not he is jealous?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Heav'ns!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And yet a thousand things recur that swear it.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What villain could inspire him with that thought?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It is not of the growth of his own nature.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Some villain; who, hell knows; but he is jealous;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And 'tis most fit a heart so pure as yours</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Do itself justice, and assert its honour,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And make him conscious of his stab to virtue.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Jealous! it sickens at my heart. Unkind,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ungen'rous, groundless, weak, and insolent!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Why, wherefore? on what shadow of occasion?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, how the great man lessens to my thought!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How could so mean a vice as jealousy</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Live in a throng of such exalted virtues!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I scorn and hate, yet love him, and adore.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I cannot, will not, dare not, think it true,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Till from himself I know it.<span class="ind3">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> This succeeds</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Just to my wish. Now she, with violence,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Upbraids him; he, not doubting she is guilty,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Rages no less; and if on either side</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The waves run high, there still lives hope of ruin.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Re-enter Alonzo.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My lord—</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, Zanga, hold thy peace! I am no coward;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But heav'n itself did hold my hand; I felt it,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">By the well-being of my soul, I did.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I'll think of vengeance at another season.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> My lord, her guilt—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Perdition on thee, Moor,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For that one word! Ah, do not rouse that thought!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I have o'erwhelm'd it much as possible:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I tell thee, Moor, I love her to distraction.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If 'tis my shame, why, be it so—I love her;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I could not hurt her to be lord of earth;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It shocks my nature like a stroke from heav'n.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But see, my Leonora comes—Be gone.<span class="ind3">[<i>exit Zanga.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Re-enter Leonora.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, seen for ever, yet for ever new!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The conquer'd thou dost conquer o'er again,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Inflicting wound on wound.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Alas, my lord!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What need of this to me?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Ha! dost thou weep?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Have I no cause?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> If love is thy concern,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thou hast no cause: none ever lov'd like me.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, that this one embrace would last for ever!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Could this man ever mean to wrong my virtue?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Could this man e'er design upon my life?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Impossible! I throw away the thought.<span class="ind3">[<i>aside.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">These tears declare how much I taste the joy</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of being folded in your arms and heart;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My universe does lie within that space.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">This dagger bore false witness.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Ha, my dagger!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It rouses horrid images. Away,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Away with it, and let us talk of love.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Of death!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> As thou lov'st happiness—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Of murder!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Rash,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Rash woman! yet forbear.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Alas, thou quite mistak'st my cause of pain!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Yet, yet dismiss me; I am all in flames.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Who has most cause, you or myself? what act</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of my whole life encourag'd you to this?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Or of your own, what guilt has drawn it on you?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">You find me kind, and think me kind to all;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The weak, ungen'rous error of your sex.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What could inspire the thought? We oft'nest judge</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">From our own hearts; and is yours then so frail,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">It prompts you to conceive thus ill of me?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He that can stoop to harbour such a thought,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Deserves to find it true.<span class="ind3">[<i>holding him.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> [<i>turning on her</i>] Ill-fated woman!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Why hast thou forc'd me back into the gulf</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of agonies I had block'd up from thought?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For, since thou hast replung'd me in my torture,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I will be satisfy'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Be satisfy'd!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Yes, thy own mouth shall witness it against thee;</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I will be satisfy'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Of what?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Of what?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How dar'st thou ask that question? Woman, woman,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Weak and assur'd at once! thus 'tis for ever.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Who told thee that thy virtue was suspected?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Who told thee I design'd upon thy life?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">You found the dagger; but that could not speak:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nor did I tell thee; who did tell thee then?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Guilt, conscious guilt!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> This to my face! Oh, heaven!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> This to thy very soul.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Thou'rt not in earnest?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Serious as death.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Then heav'n have mercy on thee.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Till now, I struggled not to think it true;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I sought conviction, and would not believe it.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And dost thou force me? this shall not be borne</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thou shalt repent this insult.<span class="ind3">[<i>going.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Madam, stay.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Your passion's wise; 'tis a disguise for guilt:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">You and your thousand arts shall not escape me.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Arts?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Arts! Confess; for death is in my hand.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> 'Tis in your words.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Confess, confess, confess!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nor tear my veins with passion to compel thee.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> I scorn to answer thee, presumptuous man!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Deny then, and incur a fouler shame.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Where did I find this picture?</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Ha, don Carlos!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">By my best hopes, more welcome than thy own.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> I know it; but is vice so very rank,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That thou shouldst dare to dash it in my face?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Nature is sick of thee, abandon'd woman!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Repent.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Is that for me?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Fall, ask my pardon.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Astonishment!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Dar'st thou persist to think I am dishonest?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> I know thee so.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> This blow then to thy heart—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">[<i>she stabs herself; he endeavours to prevent her.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Ho, Zanga! Isabella! ho! she bleeds!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Descend, ye blessed angels, to assist her!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> This is the only way I would wound thee,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Though most unjust. Now think me guilty still.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Enter Isabella.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Bear her to instant help. The world to save her.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Leon.</i> Unhappy man! well may'st thou gaze and tremble.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But fix thy terror and amazement right;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Not on my blood, but on thy own distraction.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What hast thou done? whom censur'd—Leonora!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When thou hadst censur'd, thou wouldst save her life:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, inconsistent! should I live in shame,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Or stoop to any other means but this</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">T' assert my virtue? no: she who disputes,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Admits it possible she might be guilty.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">While aught but truth could be my inducement to it,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">While it might look like an excuse to thee,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I scorn'd to vindicate my innocence:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But now, I let thy rashness know, the wound</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Which least I feel, is that my dagger made.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">[<i>exit Isabella, leading out Leonora.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Ha! was this woman guilty?—And if not—</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How my thoughts darken that way! grant, kind heaven,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That she prove guilty; or my being end.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Is that my hope, then?—Sure, the sacred dust</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Of her that bore me trembles in its urn.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">Is it in man the sore distress to bear,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">When hope itself is blacken'd to despair?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">When all the bliss I pant for, is to gain</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind2">In hell, a refuge from severer pain?</span><span class="ind3">[<i>exit.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Re-enter Zanga.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> How stands the great account 'twixt me and vengeance?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Though much is paid, yet still it owes me much,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And I will not abate a single groan—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ha! that were well—but that were fatal too—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Why, be it so—Revenge so truly great,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Would come too cheap, if bought with less than life.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Re-enter Isabella.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> Ah, Zanga, see me tremble! has not yet</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thy cruel heart its fill?—Poor Leonora—</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Welters in blood, and gasps for her last breath.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What then? we all must die.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Isa.</i> Alonzo raves,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And, in the tempest of his grief, has thrice</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Attempted on his life. At length, disarm'd,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He calls his friends, that save him, his worst foes,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And importunes the skies for swift perdition.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thus in his storm of sorrow: after pause,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">He started up, and call'd aloud for Zanga,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For Zanga rav'd; and see, he seeks you here,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To learn the truth which most he dreads to know.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Begone. Now, now, my soul, consummate all.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">[<i>exit Isabella.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i>Re-enter Alonzo.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, Zanga!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Do not tremble so; but speak.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> I dare not.</span><span class="ind3">[<i>falls on him.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> You will drown me with your tears.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Have I not cause?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> As yet, you have no cause.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Dost thou too rave?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Your anguish is to come:</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">You much have been abus'd.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Abus'd! by whom?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> To know, were little comfort.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, 'twere much!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Indeed!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> By heaven! Oh, give him to my fury!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Born for your use, I live but to oblige you.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Know, then, 'twas—I.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Am I awake?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> For ever.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thy wife is guiltless—that's one transport to me;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And I, I let thee know it—that's another.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I urg'd don Carlos to resign his mistress,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I forg'd the letter, I dispos'd the picture;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I hated, I despis'd, and I destroy!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh!</span><span class="ind3">[<i>swoons.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Why, this is well—why, this is blow for blow!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Where are you? crown me, shadow me with laurels,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ye spirits which delight in just revenge!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Let Europe and her pallid sons go weep;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Let Afric and her hundred thrones rejoice:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, my dear countrymen, look down and see</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">How I bestride your prostrate conqueror!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I tread on haughty Spain, and all her kings.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But this is mercy, this is my indulgence;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Tis peace, 'tis refuge from my indignation.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I must awake him into horrors. Hoa!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Alonzo, hoa! the Moor is at the gate!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Awake, invincible, omnipotent!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thou who dost all subdue!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Inhuman slave!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Fall'n Christian, thou mistak'st my character.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Look on me. Who am I? I know, thou say'st</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The Moor, a slave, an abject, beaten slave:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">(Eternal woes to him that made me so!)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But look again. Has six years' cruel bondage</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Extinguish'd majesty so far, that nought</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Shines here to give an awe of one above thee?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">When the great Moorish king, Abdallah, fell,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Fell by thy hand accurs'd, I fought fast by him,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">His son, though, through his fondness, in disguise,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Less to expose me to th' ambitious foe.—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ha! does it wake thee?—O'er my father's corse</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I stood astride till I had clove thy crest;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And then was made the captive of a squadron,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And sunk into thy servant—But, oh! what,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">What were my wages? Hear not heaven, nor earth!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">My wages were a blow! by heaven, a blow!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And from a mortal hand!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Oh, villain, villain!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> All strife is vain.</span><span class="ind3">[<i>showing a dagger.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Is thus my love return'd?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Is this my recompense? Make friends of tigers!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Lay not your young, oh, mothers, on the breast,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For fear they turn to serpents as they lie,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And pay you for their nourishment with death!—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Carlos is dead, and Leonora dying!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Both innocent, both murder'd, both by me.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Must I despise thee too, as well as hate thee?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Complain of grief, complain thou art a man.—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Priam from fortune's lofty summit fell;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Great Alexander 'midst his conquests mourn'd;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Heroes and demi-gods have known their sorrows;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Cæsars have wept; and I have had—my blow:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But, 'tis reveng'd, and now my work is done.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Yet, ere I fall, be it one part of vengeance</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">To force thee to confess that I am just.—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thou seest a prince, whose father thou hast slain,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Whose native country thou hast laid in blood,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Whose sacred person (oh!) thou hast profan'd,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Whose reign extinguish'd—what was left to me,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">So highly born? No kingdom, but revenge;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">No treasure, but thy tortures and thy groans.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If men should ask who brought thee to thy end,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Tell them, the Moor, and they will not despise thee.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If cold white mortals censure this great deed,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Warn them, they judge not of superior beings,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">With whom revenge is virtue. Fare thee well—</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Now, fully satisfied, I should take leave:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But one thing grieves me, since thy death is near,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I leave thee my example how to die.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><i><small>As he is going to stab himself, Alonzo rushes upon him to prevent him.</small><br /> +<small>In the mean time, enter Don Alvarez, attended. They disarm and</small><br /> +<small>seize Zanga, Alonzo puts the dagger in his bosom.</small></i></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> No, monster, thou shalt not escape by death.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, father!</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alv.</i> Oh, Alonzo!—Isabella,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Touch'd with remorse to see her mistress' pangs,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Told all the dreadful tale.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> What groan was that?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> As I have been a vulture to thy heart,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">So will I be a raven to thine ear,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">As true as ever snuff'd the scent of blood,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">As ever flapp'd its heavy wing against</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The window of the sick, and croak'd despair.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Thy wife is dead.<span class="ind3">[<i>Alvarez goes aside, and returns.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alv.</i> The dreadful news is true.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Prepare the rack; invent new torments for him.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> This too is well. The fix'd and noble mind</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Turns all occurrence to its own advantage;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And I'll make vengeance of calamity.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Were I not thus reduc'd, thou wouldst not know,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">That, thus reduc'd, I dare defy thee still.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Torture thou may'st, but thou shall ne'er despise me.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The blood will follow where the knife is driven,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And sighs and cries by nature grow on pain.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">But these are foreign to the soul: not mine</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The groans that issue, or the tears that fall;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">They disobey me; on the rack I scorn thee,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">As when my falchion clove thy helm in battle.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alv.</i> Peace, villain!</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> While I live, old man, I'll speak.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And, well I know, thou dar'st not kill me yet;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">For that would rob thy blood-hounds of their prey.</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Who call'd Alonzo?</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alv.</i> No one call'd, my son.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Alon.</i> Again!—'Tis Carlos' voice, and I obey.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, how I laugh at all that this can do!<span class="ind3">[<i>shows dagger.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The wounds that pain'd, the wounds that murder'd me,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Were giv'n before; I am already dead;</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">This only marks my body for the grave.<span class="ind3">[<i>stabs himself.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Afric, thou art reveng'd.—Oh, Leonora!<span class="ind3">[<i>dies.</i></span></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="ind1"><i>Zan.</i> Good ruffians, give me leave; my blood is yours,</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The wheel's prepar'd, and you shall have it all.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Let me but look one moment on the dead,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And pay yourselves with gazing on my pangs.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">[<i>he goes to Alonzo's body.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Is this Alonzo? Where's the haughty mien?</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Is that the hand which smote me? Heavens, how pale!</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And art thou dead? So is my enmity.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I war not with the dust. The great, the proud,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The conqueror of Afric was my foe.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A lion preys not upon carcases.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">This was thy only method to subdue me.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Terror and doubt fall on me: all thy good</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Now blazes, all thy guilt is in the grave.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Never had man such funeral applause:</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">If I lament thee, sure thy worth was great.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Oh, vengeance, I have follow'd thee too far,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">And to receive me, hell blows all her fires.<span class="ind3">[<i>exeunt.</i></span></td></tr> +</table> +</div> +<h4>THE END.</h4> +<p> </p> +<hr class="minimal" /> +<p> </p> +<p> +Mr. Hughes, in his criticism on <i>Othello</i>, introduces +the following narrative, to which allusion is made +in our remarks.—"The short story I am going to tell +is a just warning to those of jealous honour to look +about them, and begin to possess their souls as they +ought; for no man of spirit knows how terrible a creature +he is, till he comes to be provoked. +</p> + +<p> +"Don Alonzo, a Spanish nobleman, had a beautiful +and virtuous wife, with whom he had lived some +years in great tranquillity. The gentleman, however, +was not free from the faults usually imputed to his +nation; he was proud, suspicious, and impetuous. +He kept a Moor in his house, whom, on a complaint +from his lady, he had punished for a small offence +with the utmost severity. The slave vowed revenge, +and communicated his resolution to one of the lady's +women, with whom he had lived in a criminal way. +This creature also hated her mistress, for she feared +she was observed by her; she therefore undertook to +make Don Alonzo jealous, by insinuating that the +gardner was often admitted to his lady in private, and +promising to make him an eye witness of it. At a proper +time, agreed on between her and the Morisco, she +sent a message to the gardner, that his lady, having +some hasty orders to give him, would have him come +that moment to her in her chamber. In the mean +time she had placed Alonzo privately in an outer +room, that he might observe who passed that way. It +was not long before he saw the gardner appear. +Alonzo had not patience, but following him into the +apartment, struck him at one blow with a dagger to +the heart; then dragging his lady by the hair, without +inquiring farther, he instantly killed her. +</p> + +<p> +"Here he paused, looking on the dead bodies with +all the agitations of a demon of revenge; when the +wench who had occasioned these terrors, distracted +with remorse, threw herself at his feet, and in a voice +of lamentation, without sense of the consequence, repeated +all her guilt. 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align="right" valign="bottom">10 0 </td></tr> + <tr><td align="left">POPE's Poetical Works, 1822,<br /> 3 vol. in-32. pap. vélin satiné. </td><td align="right" valign="bottom">10 0 </td></tr> + <tr><td align="left">The BRITISH PROSE-WRITERS, with Biographical<br /> + and Critical Prefaces, in-32. pap. vélin satiné: containing,<br /> +The Vicar of Wakefield, 1 vol.</td><td align="right" valign="bottom">3 0 </td></tr> + <tr><td align="left">The Man of Feeling, 1 vol. </td><td align="right" valign="bottom">3 0 </td></tr> + <tr><td align="left">Bacon's Essays, 1 vol.</td><td align="right" valign="bottom">3 0 </td></tr> + <tr><td align="left">Sterne's Sentimental Journey, 1 vol.</td><td align="right" valign="bottom">3 0 </td></tr> + <tr><td align="left">Montague's Letters, 1 vol.</td><td align="right" valign="bottom">3 0 </td></tr> + <tr><td align="left">Gulliver's Travels, 2 vol.</td><td align="right" valign="bottom">6 0 </td></tr> + <tr><td align="left">Junius's Letters, 2 vols.</td><td align="right" valign="bottom">6 0 </td></tr> + <tr><td align="left">LEVIZAC's Theoretical and Practical Grammar<br /> + of the French Tongue. 8th édition, 1 vol. in-12.</td><td align="right" valign="bottom">4 0 </td></tr> + <tr><td align="left">BONIFACE's Learner's Guide to the English Tongue:<br /> + ou, Cours de Versions Anglaises, à l'Usage<br /> + des Commençans, 1 vol. in-18. br. </td><td align="right" valign="bottom">1 80</td></tr><tr> + <td align="left">POPPLETON's Guide Pratique pour traduire<br /> +du Français en bon Anglais, au moyen d'une<br /> +Traduction Interlinéaire, 1820, 1 vol. in-8. br. +</td><td align="right" valign="bottom">4 50</td></tr> + </table> +</div> + +<p> </p> +<hr class="minimal" /> + +<div class="center"> +<p class="noindent"><small>JUST PUBLISHED</small>,<br /> +The <span class="smallcaps">School for Scandal</span>, <small>a Comedy by Sheridan.</small></p> +</div> + +<p> </p> +<hr class="narrow" /> +<p> </p> + +<table class="sm" border="0" style="background-color: #E6F6FA; margin: 0 auto" cellpadding="10" summary="NOTE"> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"> + <div class="center">TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE</div> + +<p class="noindent" style="background-color: #E6F6FA"> +Contemporary spellings have been retained throughout, including three +instances of "it's" in place of "its" in the introductory "Remarks".</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Revenge, by Edward Young + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE REVENGE *** + +***** This file should be named 30653-h.htm or 30653-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/0/6/5/30653/ + +Produced by Delphine Lettau and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns 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