You cannot force me from her. Adelaide!

My child, my lovely child! thy mother calls thee.

She hears me not;—she's dead.—Oh, God! I know thee—

Tell me, while I have sense, for my brain burns;

Tell me—yet what avails it? I'll not curse—

There is a Power to punish.

Count. Look on me!

Thou hadst much cause to think my nature cruel;

I wrong'd thee sore, and this was my last deed.

Countess. Was thine? thy deed? Oh, execrable monster!