'I desire not your compassion.'
'You have violated the laws of hospitality and seduced my only child.'
'That is not true!'
'Knights and serfs were witnesses of my shame, which blood alone can efface. Were your previous marriage dissolved, however, and Rosamunda your wife, I might, perhaps, forgive you.'
'That can never be.'
'Rosamunda's person is fair, and yet fairer is her guileless heart. She is of the noblest lineage. Immense treasures lie in the caves of this castle, and my lands extend twenty days' journey towards the north. Take your life from my daughter's hand!'
'Place everlasting torments in one scale, and an imperial crown in the other, I repudiate my wife at no price.'
'Will Aliande be less inconsolable as a widow than divorced?'
'Waste not your breath!'
'By the eternal gods! I warn you for the last time. These prison walls see you Rosamunda's husband, or echo the death-sigh forced from you by the rack!'