THE SEPERATION: A TRAGEDY.
87
ACT V.
SCENE I.—The outer Court of the Castle. Hermit, Pilgrim, and several Mendicants, discovered standing round the Gateway at the bottom of the Stage.
Enter, on the front, Ludoviquo, Gauvino, and Gomez.
GAUVINO.
Spread o'er the country quickly; every morning
Adds to the number of those mendicants,—
Those slothful pests, who thus beset our gates.
LUDOVIQUO.
The sick and maim'd and truly miserable,
Although some idle vagrants with the crowd
Have enter'd cunningly. Dost thou not see
Our Hermit is amongst them?
GAUVINO.
His cot is stored with every dainty thing
Our peasant housewives rear, poor simple souls!
And prowls he here for more?
