Scene IV
The same apartment in Don Carlos' palace. Enter Leoni.
Leoni
I have been waiting like the lonesome Dove,
And still my comforter delays his time.
What if the villain has been rash indeed?
Enter Alvino
Alvino, thou hast saved my tears! Oh, love!
Did you not hear some sweet dolorous sound?
It was my soul that went out audibly
In search of thee, but never returned with thine.
Alvino
Oh, how the monster trembled at my sight!
I called upon him to defend his life,
And three times offered him this pointed steel,
Which he as many times refused with his.
I then stood o'er him, as the cypress mourns,
Preaching his funeral with exalted wrath,
Till like the willow twig snapt from its stem,
I cut the brittle thread of life in twain;
And left him weltering in his own heart's blood!
Leoni
Then he is dead, indeed!
Alvino
Yes, he is dead!
Gone down to Hell, where all seducers go!
Leoni
Plunged you the dagger in his perjured heart?
Alvino
I did, but disinterred it o'er again,
I would not let it rot in such a grave!
Leoni
(Embracing him.)
Then I am thine, forever thine!
Alvino
'Tis sworn!
(Exeunt.)
Curtain falls.
