Sen.Oh, is’t then true?
The letter false; the Augusta hither brought
But to be drowned!
Ner.See if ye know it not.
3020
Sen. Let her escape belie thy guilty purpose.
Ner. Why, nay, the failure damns a thousand-fold
More than her death—I am henceforth the man
Who would have killed his mother, and could not.
Sen. Alas, alas!