Luc. She lives, and shall be yours.

Cipr. Not if herself,

In more than all her living beauty breathing,

Come to efface that deadly counterfeit.—

Oh, what have I been doing all this while,

From which I wake as from a guilty dream,

But with my guilt’s accomplice at my side

To prove its terrible reality?

Where were my ears, my eyes, my senses? where

The mother-wit which serves the common boor,