Till now. My hand, why dost thou hesitate

To exact the penalty I owe to him?

Whatever I have suffered hitherto

Was for my mother's sake. Release my hand,

Undaunted girl; thou but delay'st my death,

And thy living father's funeral prolong'st.95

Let earth conceal at last this hated form.

Thou wrongest me, though with a kind intent,

And deem'st it piety to keep thy sire

From burial. But they are one in guilt,