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SCENE XI.
VERINO, LELIO.VERINO.
Earth gape wide!
And instant hide me—
LELIO.
O! my wretched Lord!
VERINO.
To kill a child so loving, and so loved!—
Nor earth, nor air, nor the dark sea contain,
A monster so abhorred.—
LELIO.
O grant him patience!
VERINO.
(distracted)
Hark! hark! a voice! it is my Raymond speaks!
See! to a synod of enquiring angels
He tells the dreadful tale:—they stand aghast:
They call for vengeance equal to the crime:
But see! he pleads, my generous child! for me:
He pleads for mercy on the hand, that slew him,
The murdering father!
LELIO.
My good lord retire!
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Denies the suit—Hark! how she calls Verino!
See! see! she beckons—let her victim go!
I own her justice; and I haste to meet it.
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