In what Distraction have I past this Night! Sure I shall never close my Eyes again! No Rack can equal what I feel. Wounded in both my Honour and my Love; they have pierc'd me in two tender Parts. Yet cou'd I take my just Revenge, it wou'd in some Degree assuage my Smart. O! guide me Heaven to that Cordial drop.——Hold! A Glance of Light I think begins to——Yes——Right. When Yesterday I brought Don John hither, was not Don Felix much disturb'd?——He was; and why?——That may be worth enquiring. But something more occurs. At my Arrival in this City, was I not told that two Cavaliers were warm in the Pursuit of Leonora? One I remember well, they nam'd, 'twas Guzman: The other, I am yet a Stranger to. I fear I shall not be so long——'Tis Alvarada! O the Traitor! yet I may wrong him much. I have Guzman's own Confession that he past the Wall to come to Leonora——O! but 'twas to her Assistance——And so it might, and he a Villain still.—There are Assistances of various Sorts——What were her Wants?—That's dark—But whatsoe'er they were, he came to her Assistance. Death be his Portion, for his ready Service.
Enter Don Felix.
Don Fel. You avoid me, Don Pedro; 'tis not well. Am I not your Father, have you not Reason to believe I am your Friend?
Don Ped. I have.
Don Fel. Why do you not then treat me like a Father and a Friend? The Mystery you make to me of last Night's Disturbance, I take unkindly from you.—Come, tell me your Grief, that if I can I may assuage it.
Don Ped. Nothing but Vengeance can give me ease.
Don Fel. If I desire to know your Wrongs, 'tis to assist you in revenging 'em.
Don Ped. Know then, that last Night in this Apartment I found Don Guzman and Don John.
Don Fel. Guzman and Alvarada?
Don Ped. Yes; and Leonora almost naked between them, crying out for Aid.