Aquil. Farewell! [Exit.
Ant. Adieu! Why, what a bloody-minded, inveterate, termagant strumpet have I been plagued with! Oh, yet more! nay then, I die, I die—I am dead already. [Stretches himself out. Scene closes.
SCENE II.—A Street near Priuli's House.
Enter Jaffier.
Jaff. Final destruction seize on all the world!
Bend down, ye Heavens, and, shutting round this earth,
Crush the vile globe into its first confusion;
Scorch it with elemental flames to one curst cinder,
And all us little creepers in't, called men,
Burn, burn, to nothing! but let Venice burn
Hotter than all the rest; here kindle hell
Ne'er to extinguish; and let souls hereafter
Groan here, in all those pains which mine feels now!
Enter Belvidera.
Belv. My life! [Meeting him.
Jaff. My plague! [Turning from her.