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The REVENGE.
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Leon.Alas! My Lord,
What need of this to me?
What need of this to me?
Alon.Ha! Dost thou weep?
Leon.Have I no Cause?
Alon.If Love is thy Concern,
Thou hast no Cause; None ever lov'd like me.
But wherefore this? Is it to break my Heart,
Which loses so much Blood for every Tear?
Thou hast no Cause; None ever lov'd like me.
But wherefore this? Is it to break my Heart,
Which loses so much Blood for every Tear?
Leon.Is it so tender?
Alon.Is it not? O Heav'n!
Doubt of my Love? Why I am nothing else;
It quite absorbs my every other Passion.
O that this one Embrace would last for ever!
Doubt of my Love? Why I am nothing else;
It quite absorbs my every other Passion.
O that this one Embrace would last for ever!
Leon.Could this Man ever mean to wrong my Virtue?
Could this Man e'er design upon my Life?
Impossible! I throw away the Thought. [Aside.
These Tears declare how much I taste the Joy
Of being folded in your Arms and Heart;
My Universe does lye within that space.
This Dagger bore false Witness.
Could this Man e'er design upon my Life?
Impossible! I throw away the Thought. [Aside.
These Tears declare how much I taste the Joy
Of being folded in your Arms and Heart;
My Universe does lye within that space.
This Dagger bore false Witness.
Alon.Ha! My Dagger?
It rouzes horrid Images. Away,
Away with it; and let us talk of Love,
Plunge our selves deep into the sweet Illusion,
And hide us there from every other Thought.
It rouzes horrid Images. Away,
Away with it; and let us talk of Love,
Plunge our selves deep into the sweet Illusion,
And hide us there from every other Thought.
Leon.It touches you.
Alon.Let's talk of Love.
Leon.Of Death.
Alon.As thou lov'st Happiness—
Leon.Of Murder.
Alon.Rash,
Rash Woman, yet forbear.
Rash Woman, yet forbear.
Leon.Approve my Wrongs!
Alon.Then must I fly, for thy sake and my own.
Leon.Nay, by my Injuries, you first must hear me:
Stab me, then think it much to hear my Groan?
Stab me, then think it much to hear my Groan?
Alon.Heav'ns strike me deaf!
Leon.