Zap. O, my heart!
Can I bear this?
Inhuman tyrant!—curses on thy head!
May dire remorse and anguish haunt thy throne,
And gender in thy bosom fell despair,—
Despair as deep as mine! (crosses to L.)
Bar. (r.c.). What means Zaphira?
What means this burst of grief?
Zap. (l.). Thou fell destroyer!
Had not guilt steel'd thy heart, awak'ning conscience