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Cease, cease! and cherish not such dark despair. Retire to your apartment, and in prayer Beseech Almighty Goodness to have pity On a perturbed soul.

Pray thou for me; I will pray when I can.

Hark! steps along the corridor; they come To say an early mass for the repose Of the interr'd: they must not find you here.

And to the dead they give repose! What mass, What prayers, what chaunted hymns can to the living Give respite from this agony of soul? Alas, alas! there is no cure for this.[Exeunt.

A small Court before the Door of the Prison, which is open. and other Domestics discovered waiting near it.

Goes Don Henriquez with the prisoner?

He does; his noble courser at the gate,