HENRIQUEZ: A TRAGEDY.
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BLAS.
Lifeless and
LEONORA.
And he is murder'd? Dreadful, barbarous deed!
(Exclaiming aloud.)
(All quit their places for the dance, and crowd round Leonora, who is supported by Mencia, appearing also affected, whilst Henriquez, at a distance, observes them intently.)
LEONORA (recovering).
I must retire.
[Exit with Mencia and other ladies.
KING (coming forward with Henriquez).
HENRIQUEZ (to Carlos).
CARLOS.
Yet to a soldier I should tell it plainly:
Don Juen, from some secret villain's stroke.
Has met his fate this night, and near your walls.
HENRIQUEZ.
Far distant from these walls, full many a league,
Don Juen is. Ye are deceived.