The very Persian or the unrivalled Jew
Would shrink from her dishonour.
Sen. (aside). What to say?
Being out of kinship ’twere the lesser blot—
Yet there’s his innocence. Necessity
Cannot suborn morality so far
As such confusion,—nor the alternative
May yet be shunned,—and when the best is wrong ...
Ner. What thinkest thou?
Sen.Wait: it shall be my office