Julia, Stella. Sir Thomas Clifford, Festus.

Jul. (Alone.) A wedded bride?

Is it a dream?

Oh, would it were a dream!

How would I bless the sun that waked me from it!

I am wrecked

By mine own act! What! no escape? no hope?

None! I must e’en abide these hated nuptials!

Hated!—ay, own it, and then curse thyself

That mad’st the bane thou loathest for the love