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 home. I am grieved that you have discovered this; but I leave you your fair. Indeed, 'twas my purpose to carry the affair no further. Go in.

[He tosses a key at feet.

If you have no key, here is one. Or, if you prefer, you have only to tap four times on yonder shutter; Jane will think that it is I, and she will let you in. Good night.

[Exit.

Gilbert.He has gone! he is no longer here! I did not crush and trample him under my feet! I had perforce to let him go; I had no weapon upon me!

[He spies the dagger with which killed the Jew, and picks it up with fierce haste.

Ah! you come too late! probably you will be able to kill none but myself! But no matter: whether you fell from heaven or hell, I bless you!—Jane has betrayed me! Jane has given herself to that villain! Jane is Lord Talbot's heiress! Jane is lost to me!—O God! within an hour more terrible things have befallen me than my brain can bear!

[ appears in the shadow, at the back of the stage.

Oh! to be revenged on that man—that Lord Clanbrassil! If I go to the Queen's palace, the lackeys will drive me away with kicks, like a dog!—Ah me! I am mad! My heart is breaking! I care not for death, but I would that I might have my revenge! I would give my blood for revenge! Is there no one on earth who will make that bargain with me? Who