Incomprehence in virtue! What, wouldst thou
Not only be admired, but even adored?
O glory ripe for heaven! Sirs, help, help, help!
Let us to Scipio with what speed you can;
For piety make haste, whilst yet we are man.
[Exeunt, bearing Sophonisba in a chair.
[382] Ed. 1. “of.”
[383] So ed. 2.—Ed. 1. “O Ioue thy Nectar, thinke.” (“Nectar-skink”—draught of nectar.)
[384] Old eds. “beare,” but the sense clearly requires “bar” (pronounced “bear” to rhyme with “spare”). We have twice had the word “bar” spelt “beare” earlier in the present play.
[385] Ed. 2. “struck.”
SCENE IV.
Neighbourhood of Cirta.
Cornets a march. Enter Scipio in full state, triumphal ornaments carried before him, and Syphax bound; at the other door, Lælius.
Sci. What answers Massinissa? Will he send
That Sophonisba of so moving tongue?[386]