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Support or prove thy words, I do entreat thee
To tell me freely, and I will, with speed,
Use every means that may unfold it fully
To aid thy exculpation. (Pauses.) Is there none?
Bethink thee well: how slight soever it be,
It may to others lead of more import.

ANTONIO.

Thanks, generous man!

HENRIQUEZ.

Nay, nay! What is thine answer?

ANTONIO.

Alas! four days within that fatal wood

I have been hid; unseen of every one
But Mencia, and those hinds who did pursue me.
What circumstance can then avail me? No;
Heaven, in its justice, will unfold the truth;
In this I put my trust; proofs I have none.

HENRIQUEZ.

Take the deliv'rance, then, which Heaven has sent thee.

Fly, save thy life. (Offering a purse.) This will procure the means,
When thou hast clear'd the precincts of the forest.
All now is still, and favours thy escape.

ANTONIO.

My Lord, like one stunn'd with astonishment,