Volume Ii Part 23 (1/2)

_Abd_. None else, and that's too distant to befriend you.

_Leon_. Oh, take my Life, and spare my dearer Honour!

--Help, help, ye Powers that favour Innocence.

[_Enter Women_.

_Just as the Moor is going to force in_ Leonora, _enters to him_ Osmin _in haste_.

_Osm_. My Lord, _Alonzo_--

_Abd_. What of him, you Slave--is he not secur'd?

Speak, dull Intruder, that know'st not times and seasons, Or get thee hence.

_Osm_. Not till I've done the Business which I came for.

_Abd_. Slave!--that thou cam'st for.

[_Stabs him in the Arm_.

_Osm_. No, 'twas to tell you, that _Alonzo_, Finding himself betray'd, made brave resistance; Some of your Slaves h'as killed, and some h'as wounded.

_Abd_. 'Tis time he were secured; I must a.s.sist my Guards, or all is lost.

[_Exit_.

_Leon_. Sure, _Osmin_, from the G.o.ds thou cam'st, To hinder my undoing; and if thou dy'st, Heaven will almost forgive thy other Sins For this one pious Deed.-- But yet I hope thy Wound's not mortal.

_Osm_. 'Tis only in my Arm--and, Madam, for this pity, I'll live to do you Service.

_Leon_. What Service can the Favourite of the Moor, Train'd up in Blood and Mischiefs, render me?

_Osm_. Why, Madam, I command the Guard of Moors, Who will all die, when e'er I give the Word.

Madam, 'twas I caus'd _Philip_ and the Cardinal To fly to th' Camp, And gave 'em warning of approaching Death.

_Leon_. Heaven bless thee for thy Goodness.

_Osm_. I am weary now of being a Tyrant's Slave, And bearing Blows too; the rest I could have suffer'd.

Madam, I'll free the Prince.

But see, the Moor returns.

_Leon_. That Monster's Presence I must fly, as from a killing Plague.

[_Ex. with her Women_.

_Enter_ Abdelazer _with_ Zarrack, _and a Train of Moors_.

_Abd_. It is prodigious, that a single Man Should with such Bravery defend his Life Amongst so many Swords;--but he is safe.

_Osmin_, I am not us'd to sue for Pardon, And when I do, you ought to grant it me.

_Osm_. I did not merit, Sir, so harsh a Usage.

_Abd_. No more; I'm asham'd to be upbraided, And will repair the Injury I did thee.