Yet was, alas! the thing I did not know.

[She looks on him, and he holds down his Head.

Forced at the last, my shameful pain I tell.

Vict. No more; we know our mutual love too well.

[Both look up, and meet each other's Eyes.

Alph. Two lines in reading had escaped my sight;

Shall I go back, and do the poet right?

Vict. Already we have read too far, I fear;

But read no more than modesty may bear.

Alphonso reading.