[Exit into an inner cell.
Scene II.—A Street of Palermo.
Many Citizens assembled.
1st Cit. The morning breaks; his time is almost come:
Will he be led this way?
2d Cit. Ay, so ’tis said
To die before that gate through which he purposed
The foe should enter in!
3d Cit. ’Twas a vile plot!
And yet I would my hands were pure as his