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 a single time, before my death, and say to me those blessed words she used to say: "I love you!"—Joshua, Joshua, the heart of a man who loves is made that way. Think you that you will kill the woman who is false to you? No, you will not kill her, you will lie at her feet, after as before, but you will be sad. You deem me weak? What should I have gained, pray, by killing Jane? Oh! my heart is full of intolerable thoughts! If she loved me still what would all that she has done matter to me? But she loves Fabiani! but she loves Fabiani! it is for Fabiani's sake that she comes! There is one thing certain—that is that I would be glad to die! Have pity on me, Joshua!

Joshua.Fabiani will be put to death to-day.

Gilbert.And I to-morrow.

Joshua.God is at the end of everything.

Gilbert.To-day I shall be revenged upon him. To-morrow he will be revenged upon me.

Joshua.Brother, here is the second Constable of the Tower, Master Æneas Dulverton. You must go within. I will see you again this evening, brother.

Gilbert.Oh! to die without being loved! to die without being wept! Jane!—Jane!—Jane!

[He goes into the dungeon.

Joshua.Poor Gilbert! Good lack! who ever would have thought that what is happening would happen?

[Exit.—Enter and.

Renard.'Tis most strange, as you say; but what would you have? the Queen is mad, she knows not