[A citizen goes out.
2d Cit. This wasting siege,
Good Father Lopez, hath gone hard with you!
’Tis sad to hear no voices through the house,
Once peopled with fair sons!
3d Cit. Why, better thus,
Than to be haunted with their famish’d cries,
E’en in your very dreams!
Old Cit. Heaven’s will be done!
These are dark times! I have not been alone