Abd. Surely she’ll live—[Aside.]—This!—
Can Mischief dwell beneath this reverend Shape?
Confess who taught thee so much Cruelty.
Confess, or I will kill thee.
Rod. The Cardinal.
Qu. The Cardinal!
Abd. Oh impious Traitor! How came I mention’d then?
Rod. To get Admittance.
Abd. But why do I delay thy Punishment?
Die,—and be damn’d together. [Aside.]
[Stabs him.
But oh, my Queen!—Elvira, call for help.
Have I remov’d all that oppos’d our Flame,
[Kneels.
To have it thus blown out, thus in a Minute?
When I, all full of youthful Fire, all Love,
Had rais’d my Soul with Hopes of near Delights,
To meet thee cold, and pale; to find those Eyes,
Those charming Eyes thus dying—Oh ye Powers!
Take all the Prospect of my future Joys,
And turn it to Despair, since thou art gone.
Qu. Cease,—cease—your kind Complaints—my struggling Soul,
’.wixt Death—and Love—holds an uneasy Contest;
This will not let it stay—nor that depart;—
And whilst I hear thy Voice—thus breathing Love,
It hovers still—about—the grateful—Sound.
My Eyes—have took—an everlasting Leave—
Of all that blest their Sight; and now a gloomy Darkness
Benights the wishing Sense,—that vainly strives—
To take another View;—but ‘tis too late,—
And Life—and Love—must yield—to Death—and—
Fate.
[Dies.
Abd. Farewell, my greatest Plague, [He rises with Joy. Thou wert a most impolitick loving thing; And having done my Bus’ness which thou wert born for, ’.was time thou shouldst retire, And leave me free to love, and reign alone.
Enter Leonora, Alonzo, Ordonio, and other Men and Women.
Come all the World, and pay your Sorrows here,
Since all the World has Interest in this Loss.