Of what I might expect from your unkindness,—

Now, speak, Ramirez, and relate the rest;

For my tongue faulters, and denies its office,

So much I fear my lord should take offence.

Ram. Then, like or disapprove it, thus it was:

She told my wife and me this mournful story;

Her fears, for thy resentment of thy loss,

If, by misfortune, it should reach thy ears,

Begged secrecy, and then implored our aid

To substitute the living for the dead,