Her violence is noteworthy; three or four men attempt to hold her; but she succeeds in freeing herself from them, and wanders abroad.
When we next see her the second shock is at work and Lucibella is returning to sanity. Mathias, Lodowick’s brother, still fears for her life, having seen her “clamb’ring upon the steepness of the rock,” but what she has seen in Hoffman’s cave has saved her mental life. She talks still with the fierce sarcasm of mania.
Shewing the skeletons, she cries:
I keep a princely house, when I have such
Fat porters at my gate.”
Still, as before, she lards her speech with scraps of song:
“Here, look here!
Here is a way goes down!
Down, down, down,