Cora. Let not my sufferings oppress you; believe me, I am resigned.
SCENE III.—Enter Telasco, with Zorai in chains.
Cora. (Uttering a loud and piercing shriek) Oh, I am heard!—Behold my father’s spirit!—Yet his features are full of indignation!—his countenance is terrible!—Alonzo, awake me from this dream!
Alonzo. Would to God it were, indeed, only your father’s shade!—but, alas! it is he himself.—Oh what an hour of horror!
Cora. (Casting a look of awe towards Telasco) My father!
Telasco. (To Zorai) Why was I brought hither at this moment?—Do not the important services which I have done my native country through so long a course of years, give me a just claim to expect some forbearance? Go and demand of the priests if I must be compelled to stay with her,—I will, meanwhile, support myself against this pillar.
Cora. (Approaching him with trembling steps) My father!
Telasco. (With agony) Save me Zorai—save me!
Zorai. (Thrusting Cora away) Hence serpent!—spare the old man at least in his last moments. (Telasco turns away his face)