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FRIAR.

Cease, cease! and cherish not such dark despair.

Retire to your apartment, and in prayer
Beseech Almighty Goodness to have pity
On a perturbed soul.

HENRIQUEZ.

Pray thou for me; I will pray when I can.

FRIAR.

Hark! steps along the corridor; they come

To say an early mass for the repose
Of the interr'd: they must not find you here.

HENRIQUEZ.

And to the dead they give repose! What mass,

What prayers, what chaunted hymns can to the living
Give respite from this agony of soul?
Alas, alas! there is no cure for this.[Exeunt.

SCENE IV.

A small Court before the Door of the Prison, which is open. Blas and other Domestics discovered waiting near it.

FIRST DOMESTIC (to Blas).

Goes Don Henriquez with the prisoner?

BLAS.

He does; his noble courser at the gate,