Thou had’st me weep no more!
Alc. Yes! thus I said,
And thus again I say, thou shalt not weep
Thy son’s, nor I deplore my husband’s doom.
Let him be saved, and other sounds of woe
Less deep, less mournful far, shall here be heard,
Than those his death had caused.—With some few tears,
But grief, and mingled with a gleam of joy,
E’en while the involuntary tribute lasts,
The victim shall be honour’d who resign’d