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SCENE I.—A Prison in the Castle. ''discovered disconsolate near the Front of the Stage. A high Door at the Bottom, with Stairs from it, leading down into the Prison''.

Another visit! do they vainly think, By oft-repeated questions, to betray A spent, enfeebled mind into confession? It is a woman! it is Mencia's self!

And comest thou to visit me, to bless My dismal prison-house with what were bliss Ev'n in the lowest state of human misery? Sweet Mencia! thou hast pity on me then. Pity embedded lies where love hath been, And love again doth from that pity spring, As the dropp'd seed of some fair faded flower Shoots its sheath'd bud from the cleft mould, first peeping