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“'Tis false, by Mary's blessed name!Coward, the slanderer's fiend-like fame,
The traitor's death, thy portion be!
Hence with the slave!” A moment turn'd
The Monarch's thought: with doubt he burn'd.
“Merida, stay! The boy? The page?”
“Ah, vain, my liege, my honest rage!
He fled, and none the boy could see.”
“If this be false, death is thy share!
If true—O God! That misery spare!—
Inez, saw she the page?” “At hand
She waited on the Queen's command.—”
“Where is the Queen?—So true to me,
So fair, so pure—it cannot be!
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“At the low tomb of Ferdinand!”
Don Pedro said—“Ah, dares she stand
A foul adult'ress there?
Yet even there, at his sad tomb,
My justice shall decide her doom.”
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