Volume Ii Part 23 (2/2)

_Osm_. Acknowledgment from you is pay sufficient.

_Abd_. Yet, _Osmin_, I shou'd chide your Negligence, Since by it _Philip_ lives still, and the Cardinal.

_Osm_. I had design'd it, Sir, this Evening's Sacrifice.

_Abd_. _Zarrack_ shall now perform it--and instantly: _Alonzo_ too must bear 'em company.

_Zar_. I'll shew my Duty in my haste, my Lord.

[_Ex_. Zar.

_Osm_. Death! I'm undone; I'll after him, and kill him.

[_Offers to go_.

_Abd. Osmin_, I've business with you.--

[Osm. _comes back bowing.

As they are going off, enter_ Leonora, Ordonio, _other Lords, and Women_.

_Leon_. Oh Prince! for Pity hear and grant my Suit.

[_Kneels_.

_Abd_. When so much Beauty's prostrate at my Feet, What is't I can deny?--rise, thou brightest Virgin That ever Nature made; Rise, and command my Life, my Soul, my Honour.

_Leon_. No, let me hang for ever on your Knees, Unless you'll grant _Alonzo_ Liberty.

_Abd_. Rise, I will grant it; though _Alonzo_, Madam, Betray'd that Trust I had repos'd in him.

_Leon_. I know there's some Mistake; let me negotiate Between my Brother and the Gallant Moor.

I cannot force your Guards, There is no Danger in a Woman's Arm.

_Abd_. In your bright Eyes there is, that may corrupt 'em more Than all the Treasures of the Eastern Kings.

Yet, Madam, here I do resign my Power; Act as you please, dismiss _Alonzo's_ Chains.

And since you are so generous, to despise This Crown, which I have given you, _Philip_ shall owe his Greatness to your Bounty, And whilst he makes me safe, shall rule in Spain.

--_Osmin_-- [_Whispers_.

_Ord_. And will you trust him, Madam?

_Leon_. If he deceive me, 'tis more happy far To die with them, than live where he inhabits.

_Osm_. It shall be done.

_Abd_. Go, _Osmin_, wait upon the Queen; And when she is confin'd, I'll visit her, Where if she yield, she reigns; if not, she dies. [_Aside_.

[_Ex_. Abd. _one way_, Leon. Osm. _and the rest another_.

SCENE III. _A Prison_.

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