Enter Countess, Fabian, and other Attendants.

Countess. Whence were those cries? what meant that fearful bell?

Who shall withhold me? I will not return.

Is there a horror I am stranger to?

Aust. There is; and so beyond all mortal patience,

I can but wish you stripp'd of sense and thought,

That it may pass without destroying you.

Countess. What is it? speak—

Aust. [Looking towards the Body.] Turn not your eyes that way,

For there, alas——