I put myself within a parent's power.

Alph. Cruel Victoria! would you go from hence,

And leave a desolate, despairing prince?

Is this the freedom you demand from me?

Are these the vows, and this the constancy?

Put off the mask; for I too well perceive

Whom you resolve to love, and whom to leave.

Go, teach me at my own expence, to find

What change a day can make in womankind.

Vict. Think not a day, nor all my life, can make