Your share, Alphonso, in this happy day [To Alph.

Is not the least, nor will you be the last,

To applaud my worthy choice of such a son.

Alph. A sudden damp has seized my vital spirits;

I see but through a mist, and hear far off.—

Nay trouble not yourselves: a little time

Of needful rest, and solitary thought,

Will mend my health; till when, excuse my presence.

[Exit Alphonso, and looks back on Victoria.

Xim. [Aside.] He's much disturbed,—a sickness of the soul;