Count Julian
Officer. Thy wife, Count Julian!

Jul. Speak!

Offi. Is dead!

Jul. Adieu Earth, and the humblest of all earthly hopes, To hear of comfort, tho’ to find it vain. Thou murderer of the helpless! shame of man! Shame of thy own base nature! ’tis an act He who could perpetrate could not avow, Stained, as he boasts to be, with innocent blood, Deaf to reproach, and blind to retribution.

Offi. Julian, be just; ’twill make thee less unhappy. p. 127Grief was her end: she held her younger boy And wept upon his cheek; his naked breast By recent death now hardening and inert, Slipt from her knee; again with frantic grasp She caught it, and it weighed her to the ground There lay the dead—

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Jul. She?

Offi. —And the youth her son.

Jul. Receive them to thy peace, eternal God! O soother of my hours, while I beheld The light of day, and thine! adieu, adieu! And, my Covilla! dost thou yet survive? Yes, my lost child, thou livest yet—in shame! O agony, past utterance! past thought! That throwest death, as some light idle thing, With all its terrors, into dust and air— I will endure thee; I, whom heaven ordained Thus to have served beneath my enemies, Their conqueror, thus to have revisited My native land with vengeance and with woe. p. 128Henceforward shall she recognise her sons, Impatient of oppression or disgrace, And rescue them, or perish; let her hold This compact, written with her blood, and mine.

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[To the guards.

Now follow me—but tremble [128]—years shall roll And wars rage on, and Spain at last be free.

THE END.

J. MOYES, PRINTER, Greville Street, Hatton Garden, London.

J. MOYES, PRINTER,

Greville Street, Hatton Garden, London.

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