But the same hour that gave her to the world,

For ever clos'd the fair one's eyes who bore her.

Foul treason next cut short thy grandsire's thread;

Poison'd he fell.—

[Theodore pauses, and Austin, who has been some time behind, advances.

Aust. By Raymond's felon father,

Who, adding fraud to murder, forg'd a will,

Devising to himself and his descendants,

Thy rights, thy titles, thy inheritance.