Let me but fall upon my rival's corse,

And I shall die content. For happy he

Who drags with him his enemy to death.350

Nurse: Why dost thou feed thy passion's flames, poor child,

And nurse thy grief? Why cherish needless fear?

He did feel love for Iole, 'tis true;

But in the time while yet her father reigned,

And while she was a haughty monarch's child.

The princess now has fallen to the place

Of slave, and love has lost its power to charm,355