[Dies.

Bass. Farewel, fair Excellence! Thou best of Wives! But I shall quickly follow—Yet before I go, I beg, Alonzo, let my Death atone For all the Injuries my Life has done you. Oh! spare my Memory, when I'm no more.

Alon. By Heaven! I see such Virtue struggling in thy Breast, As makes me wish I could prevent the Flight Of thy departing Soul——

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Bass. No, No——I would not live: Hadst thou not come, my Hand had set me free, But now I fell more nobly, and less guilty. My Friend, my dear Armando, Haste to inform my Prince, Bassino rests; But hide, if possible, my Shame: And let One Grave hold both this wretched Corps and mine, Oh! my Placentia—— [Dies.

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[Dies.

Alon. Unhappy Pair! But far more wretched me! For I must live, and live without Aurelia! Tho' I'm convinc'd she lov'd me not, I can't Banish her Image from my Love-sick Mind. Oh! that I ne'er had seen the charming Fair!

Arm. The Gods are just in all their Punishments: And by this single Act, we plainly see That Vengeance always treads on Perjury; And tho' sometimes no Bolts be at us hurl'd, Whilst we enjoy the Pleasures of this World; Yet a Day awaits, a Day of general Doom, When guilty Souls must to an Audit come; Then that we may not tremble, blush, or fear, Let our Desires be just; our Lives unsullied here.

[Exeunt omnes.

 Contemporary spellings and hyphenation have been retained, even where inconsistent; so the text contains both, e.g. thou'rt and thour't, you'rs and your's. At the very beginning of Act 5, Scene 1, a speech wrongly given to Ludovic has been assigned to Lucy in keeping with the logic of the dialogue. Two obvious typographical errors were corrected: "Reputatron" became "Reputation" in Act 2, Scene 2 (Ludovic); "connot" was changed to "cannot" in Act 4, Scene 1 (Placentia). Along with the two additional changes listed below, these corrections can be identified in the body of the text by a grey dotted underline:

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