[Exeunt.

SCENE III.—ANOTHER APARTMENT IN VORTIGERN’S PALACE.

Enter Vortigern.

Vor. Thus far, then, have my deeds a sanction found;

For still each morn doth the resplendent sun

Dart forth its golden rays, to grace my sight.

O what an inconsistent thing is man!

There was a time when e’en a murd’rous thought

Would have congeal’d my very mass of blood;

“And, as a tree, on the approaching storm,