To plead my exculpation to the winds?

O Donna Anna, I call Heav’n to witness

’Twas not my negligence, but my ill star

That envied me such ill-deserved delight.

If it be otherwise,

Or even you suspect it otherwise,

Spurn me, not only now, but ever, from you.

Since better were it with a conscience clear

Rejected, than suspiciously received.

The Prince has kept me all the night with him