Ord. Reverend father,
I am much beholden to your high opinion,
Which so o'erprizes my light services. [then to Alhadra
I would that I could serve you; but in truth
Your face is new to me.
Mon. My mind foretold me
That such would be the event. In truth, Lord Valdez,
'Twas little probable, that Don Ordonio,
That your illustrious son, who fought so bravely
Some four years since to quell these rebel Moors,
Should prove the patron of this infidel!
The warranter of a Moresco's faith!
Remorse.
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Have learnt by heart their falsehoods to gain time. Corr. in MS. III.
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who (you know, &c., . . . with her Erased MS. III. The stage-direction (Alhadra here advances towards Ordonio) is inserted at the end of Francesco's speech.
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om. MS. III.
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