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