University of Virginia Library

SCENE XVI.

Antonia and Ferdinando.
ANTONIA.
How dar'd you, wretch! break, at the dead of night,
Into my chamber as I sleeping lay?

FERDINANDO.
Was there no other there?

ANTONIA.
Great God! what other?

FERDINANDO.
Madam, 'tis true I found your door unbarr'd;
Enter'd unheard, as—

ANTONIA.
Wretch! you shall be torn
To rags by tygers, when my lord returns.
I could, myself, rive thy accursed flesh.—
Oh! Heav'n!—Oh! Heav'n!—to leave me so forlorn.

FERDINANDO.
(I'll brave her out.)—Have confidence in me.
But when you next in this intrigue indulge,
Dismiss him ere you sleep.

ANTONIA.
Whom! whom! accurst?

FERDINANDO.
He that usurp'd the linen of my lord;
For had it been the count himself that came.—
But trust to me. If you are calm and wise,
I'll be as secret as your paramour.

ANTONIA.
Hence! hence! insulting traitor; hence! I say