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Enter the, meeting ; a confused noise heard without, and a discharge of cannon.

What saw'st thou from the turrets, for thy face Looks pale and terrified? The din increases; They have not made a breach?

I hope they have not; but that fearful engine Is now against our weakest buttress pointed. (Cannon heard again.) It roars again; have mercy on us, Heaven! How the walls shake, as if an earthquake rock'd them!

My child, my child! I'll to the lowest vaults Convey him instantly.

But you forget th' attack is still directed Against the eastern side; here he is safe.