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SCENE VIII.
The Scene changes.Enter VERINO, attended by LELIO.
VERINO,
Old foolish eyes! will you not cease to pour?
These unavailing streams! not all the tears
That penitence has shed, since crimes began,
Can make atonement for such guilt, or wash
My child's blood, from my hand.
LELIO.
Be comforted!
VERINO.
Talk not of comfort! hence and teach the world
To hate my name, and tremble at my crimes,
For it shall feel their weight! my monstrous deed
Will fright domestic happiness from earth,
With filial love—The son no more shall live
In sweet dependance on a father's care,
But fear to meet a dagger from that arm
Whose every sinew should be strained to—Hark!
What cries of vengeance! 'Tis the righteous people
They come to tear me piece-meal:—bid them plunge
In some infuriate whirlpool of the deep
This savage heart, not worthy to find rest,
In earth's parental bosom.
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