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Scene III.

—An inner Court of the Castle.
Enter Sigifred, Gonfred, and Theodore meeting.
Theodore.
Was ever such a night?

Sigifred.
What horrors more?
Things unbeliev'd one hour, so strange they are,
The next hour stamps with credit.

Theodore.
Your last news?

Gonfred.
After the Page's story of the death
Of Albert and Duke Conrad?

Sigifred.
And the return
Of Ludolph with the Princess.

Gonfred.
No more save
Prince Gersa's freeing Abbot Ethelbert,
And the sweet lady, fair Erminia,
From prison.

Theodore.
Where are they now? hast yet heard?

Gonfred.
With the sad Emperor they are closeted;
I saw the three pass slowly up the stairs,
The lady weeping, the old Abbot cowl'd.

Sigifred.
What next?

Theodore.
I ache to think on't.

Gonfred.
'Tis with fate.

Theodore.
One while these proud towers are hush'd as death.

Gonfred.
The next our poor Prince fills the arched rooms
With ghastly ravings.

Sigifred.
I do fear his brain.

Gonfred.
I will see more. Bear you so stout a heart?

[Exeunt into the Castle.