Free and avenged! Yet on my soul there hangs

A darkness, heavy as the oppressive gloom

Of midnight fantasies. Ay, for this, too,

There is a cause.

Ans. How say’st thou, we are free?—

There may have raged, within Palermo’s walls,

Some brief wild tumult; but too well I know

They call the stranger lord.

Vit. Who calls the dead

Conqueror or lord? Hush! breathe it not aloud,