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Enter Bertha and Hurra.Æl.
Ah! Bertha here!
Ber.
What sound is this? what means this lethal knell?
Where is my Ælla? speak; where? how is he?
Oh Ælla! art thou then alive and well?
Æl.
I live indeed; but do not live for thee.
Ber.
What means my Ælla?
Æl.
Here my meaning see.
Thy foulness urged my hand to give this wound;
It me unsprites.
Ber.
It hath unsprited me.
Æl.
Ah heavens! my Bertha falleth to the ground!
But yet I am a man, and so will be.
Hur.
Ælla! I am a Dane, but yet a friend to thee.
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