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The REVENGE.
Alon.Live now, be damn'd hereafter; for I want thee.
O Night of Ecstasie!———Ha! was't not so?
I will enjoy this Murder———Let me think———
The Jess'min Bow'r, 'tis secret and remote.
Go, wait me there, and take thy Dagger with thee.
[Exit Zan.
How the sweet Sound still Sings within my Ear?
When shall we meet again? To-Night, in Hell.
As he is going, Enter Leonora.
Ha! I'm surpriz'd, I stagger at her Charms.
O Angel-Devil! shall I stab her now?
No, it shall be as I had first determin'd:
To kill her now were half my Vengeance lost.
Then I must now dissemble—If I can.
O Night of Ecstasie!———Ha! was't not so?
I will enjoy this Murder———Let me think———
The Jess'min Bow'r, 'tis secret and remote.
Go, wait me there, and take thy Dagger with thee.
[Exit Zan.
How the sweet Sound still Sings within my Ear?
When shall we meet again? To-Night, in Hell.
As he is going, Enter Leonora.
Ha! I'm surpriz'd, I stagger at her Charms.
O Angel-Devil! shall I stab her now?
No, it shall be as I had first determin'd:
To kill her now were half my Vengeance lost.
Then I must now dissemble—If I can.
Leon.My Lord, excuse me, see a second Time
I come in Embassy from all your Friends,
Whose Joys are languid, uninspir'd by you.
I come in Embassy from all your Friends,
Whose Joys are languid, uninspir'd by you.
Alon.This Moment, Leonora, I was coming
To Thee, and all—but sure, or I mistake,
Or Thou canst well inspire my Friends with Joy.
To Thee, and all—but sure, or I mistake,
Or Thou canst well inspire my Friends with Joy.
Leon.Why sighs my Lord?
Alon.I sigh'd not, Leonora.
Leon.I thought you did; your Sighs are mine, my Lord,
And I shall feel them all.
And I shall feel them all.
Alon.Dost flatter me?
Leon.If my Regards for you are Flattery,
Full far indeed I stretch'd the Compliment
In this Day's solemn Rite.
Full far indeed I stretch'd the Compliment
In this Day's solemn Rite.
Alon.What Rite?
Leon.You sport me.
Alon.Indeed I do; my Heart is full of Mirth.
Leon.And so is mine—I look on Cheerfulness,
As on the Health of Virtue.
As on the Health of Virtue.
Alon.Virtue!———Damn———
Leon.What says My Lord!
Alon.Thou art exceeding Fair.
Leon.