Volume Xiv Part 63 (1/2)

EPH. Can this be true, Andromana?

AND. Do you believe it?

EPH. I wish I had not cause----

AND. Sir, every syllable was true he told you; Whose words I thus confirm.

[_She takes_ PLANGUS'S _dagger, flings it at_ EPHORBAS, _and kills him_.

EPH. I'm slain! mercy, Heaven!

_Enter_ INOPHILUS.

AND. You should have come a little sooner.

INO. Do I see well? or is the prince here slain?

AND. He is, and 'cause you love him, Carry that token of my love to him.

[_Stabs_ INOPHILUS.

I know he'll take it kindly that you take So long a journey only to see him.

INO. It was the devil struck, sure, A woman could not do it.--Plangus, O!

[_Dies._

SCENE VI.

_Enter_ RINATUS, EUBULUS, ANAMEDES.

RIN. Heav'n defend us! what a sight is here? The king, The prince, both slain? what, and my son too?

Only this woman living? Speak out, [thou]

Screech-owl, witch, how came they by their deaths!

AND. By me; how else?

RIN. Let's torture her.

AND. I can Prevent you; I wouldn't live a minute longer Unless to act my ills again, for all Iberia.

[_Stabs herself._

I have lived long enough to boast an act, After which no mischief shall be new----

[_Dies._