But here I bid farewell to grief and fondness:

Let him go kneel, and sigh to Isabel:

And may he as obdurate find her heart,

As his has been to me.

Aust. Why, that's well said;—

'Tis better thus, than with consuming sorrow

To feed on your own life. Give anger scope:

Time, then, at length, will blunt this killing sense;

And peace, he ne'er must know again, be yours.

Countess. I was a woman, full of tenderness;