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Scene the Sixth

Lopez
Lopez.
The planets in their courses shrink for horror
Heaven drops natural tears

Granvil and Lopez.
Granvil
Lopez what news?

Lopez.
Ill news Lord Cardinal, the counts are fled

Gran.
Confusion! fled?

Lopez.
By desperate Valour fir'd
They hew'd their passage thro' opposing numbers.

Granvel
Thy trickery Villian, not their valour sav'd them
But wretch thy Life shall answer it.

Lopez.
My life
Has answered it (worse fate for me!) behold!
Alas, my lord, I tremble; I expire.
Lend me your Arm and bless me e're I part.

Granvel
Son, die in peace.

Lopez
Die first thyself, thou Villian

Granvel
Oh! I am slain! (They struggle)


Lopez.
Take that to make it sure.

(Stabs him again and he falls
Granvel
Oh! hold thy hand, bloody, relentless Villian
What hast thou done?

Lopez
I have done Mankind a service.

Granvil
So kind a master!—say—infernal Wretch—
What fiend—inspired—this sacrilegious act?

Lopez.
Say'st thou what fiend?—Revenge; the bloodiest fiend
That walks Hell's pavement. When thy sordid Heart
With Lion-like division seized the spoil
Of Raymond's fortune and refused my wish
For some small share of what my toils had earn'd
Then in that instant I decreed thy death,
And now my Vengance has performed it's office
Hah! art thou dead? my sword has found thy Heart
Tho' Mercy never could. So! I am found.