What prayers can rise for such a wretch as I am?

Seize me, ye fiends! rouse all your stings and torments!

See, hell grows darker as I stalk before them.

Theod. [After looking some time at Adelaide's Body.]

'Tis my black destiny has murder'd thee.

Stand off—[They hold him.] I will not live.

This load of being is intolerable;

And, in a happier world, my soul shall join her.

[Rushes out.

Aust. Observe, and keep him from all means of death.