Leon. If he deceive me, ‘tis more happy far To die with them, than live where he inhabits.
Osm. It shall be done.
Abd. Go, Osmin, wait upon the Queen; And when she is confin’d, I’ll visit her, Where if she yield, she reigns; if not, she dies. [Aside.
[Ex. Abd. one way, Leon. Osm. and the rest another.
SCENE III. A Prison.
Discovers Philip chain’d to a Post, and over against him the Cardinal and Alonzo in Chains.
Phil. Oh, all ye cruel Powers! is’t not enough
I am depriv’d of Empire, and of Honour?
Have my bright Name stol’n from me, with my Crown!
Divested of all Power! all Liberty!
And here am chain’d like the sad Andromede,
To wait Destruction from the dreadful Monster!
Is not all this enough, without being damn’d,
To have thee, Cardinal, in my full view?
If I cou’d reach my Eyes, I’d be reveng’d
On the officious and accursed Lights,
For guiding so much torment to my Soul.
Card. My much wrong’d Prince! you need not wish to kill By ways more certain, than by upbraiding me With my too credulous, shameful past misdeeds.
Phil. If that wou’d kill, I’d weary out my Tongue
With an eternal repetition of thy Treachery;—
Nay, and it shou’d forget all other Language,
But Traitor! Cardinal! which I wou’d repeat,
Till I had made my self as raging mad,
As the wild Sea, when all the Winds are up;
And in that Storm, I might forget my Grief.
Card. Wou’d I cou’d take the killing Object from your Eyes.