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FOURTH VOICE.

Ho! more help here! more stones! more beams! more fire!

Weapons are useless now.

FIRST VOICE.

See how that giant Turk, like an arch fiend,

Climbs on yon living mountain of curv'd backs!
He gains the wall! O hurl him headlong down!
He is hurl'd down! (A great shout from the besieged.)

SECOND VOICE.

Send to the emperor or to Rodrigo:

They on their diff'rent stations hold it bravely;
This is the weakest point. Ho! send for aid!

(Exeunt several soldiers from the walls as if running for succour. The noise of artillery, &c. is heard as before, and afterwards a loud crash as of some building falling. Enter many people in great terror from the walls , running off by the front of the stage different ways, and enter at the same time, Constantine and some of his friends, who stop them.)

CONSTANTINE.

Turn, turn! O turn, my friends! another push!

Let us still stop the breach, or fall like men.

(Enter Justiniani from the walls with a hasty and disordered step, pale and writhing with pain.)