All. Who rais'd these exclamations through the court?
Queen-M. Sheathe up your swords; you need not swords, but eyes
To intercept this treason.
Alv. What's the treason?
Who are traitors? ring the larum-bell;
Cry Arm through all the city: once before
The horrid cry of treason did affright
Our sleeping spirits.
Queen-M. Stay;
You need not cry Arm, arm! for this black deed
Works treason to your king, to me, to you,
To Spain, and all that shall in Spain ensue.
This night Maria (Eleazar's wife)
Hath drawn the king by her lascivious looks
Privately to a banquet; I (unseen)
Stood and beheld him in her lustful arms;
O God! shall bastards wear Spain's diadem?
If you can kneel to baseness, vex them not;
If you disdain to kneel, wash off this blot.
Rod. Let's break into the chamber, and surprise her.
Alv. O miserable me! do, do, break in;
My country shall not blush at my child's sin.
Queen-M. Delay is nurse to danger, follow me;
Come you and witness to her villany.
Alv. Hapless Alvero, how art thou undone
In a light daughter and a stubborn son!
[Exeunt Omnes.