In what Distraction have I past this Night! Sure I shall never close my Eyes again! No Rack can equal what I feel. Wounded in both my Honour and my Love; they have pierc'd me in two tender Parts. Yet cou'd I take my just Revenge, it wou'd in some Degree assuage my Smart. O! guide me Heaven to that Cordial drop.----Hold! A Glance of Light I think begins to----Yes----Right. When Yesterday I brought Don _John_ hither, was not Don _Felix_ much disturb'd?----He was; and why?----That may be worth enquiring. But something more occurs. At my Arrival in this City, was I not told that two Cavaliers were warm in the Pursuit of _Leonora_? One I remember well, they nam'd, 'twas _Guzman_: The other, I am yet a Stranger to. I fear I shall not be so long----'Tis _Alvarada_! O the Traitor! yet I may wrong him much. I have _Guzman_'s own Confession that he past the Wall to come to _Leonora_----O! but 'twas to her Assistance----And so it might, and he a Villain still.--There are Assistances of various Sorts----What were her Wants?--That's dark--But whatsoe'er they were, he came to her Assistance. Death be his Portion, for his ready Service. _Enter Don ~Felix~._ Don _Fel._ You avoid me, Don _Pedro_; 'tis not well. Am I not your Father, have you not Reason to believe I am your Friend? Don _Ped._ I have. Don _Fel._ Why do you not then treat me like a Father and a Friend? The Mystery you make to me of last Night's Disturbance, I take unkindly from you.--Come, tell me your Grief, that if I can I may assuage it. Don _Ped._ Nothing but Vengeance can give me ease. Don _Fel._ If I desire to know your Wrongs, 'tis to assist you in revenging 'em. Don _Ped._ Know then, that last Night in this Apartment I found Don _Guzman_ and Don _John_. Don _Fel._ _Guzman_ and _Alvarada_? Don _Ped._ Yes; and _Leonora_ almost naked between them, crying out for Aid. Don _Fel._ Were they both guilty? Don _Ped._ One was come to force her, t'other to rescue her. Don _Fel._ Which was the Criminal? Don _Ped._ Of that I am yet ignorant. They accuse each other. Don _Fel._ Can't your Wife determine it? Don _Ped._ The Darkness of the Night put it out of her Power. Don _Fel._ But I perhaps may bring some Light to aid you. I have Part in the Affront: And tho' my Arm's too old and weak to serve you, my Counsel may be useful to your Vengeance. Know then, that Don _Guzman_ has a long Time pursu'd my Daughter; and I as resolutely refus'd his Suit; which, however, has not hindered him from searching all Occasions to see and speak to her. Don _John_, on his Side---- Don _Ped._ Don _John_'s my Friend, and I am confident---- Don _Fel._ That Confidence destroys you. Hear my Charge, and be yourself his Judge. He too has been a pressing Suitor to my Daughter. Don _Ped._ Impossible! Don _Fel._ To me myself, he has own'd his Love to her. Don _Ped._. Good Gods! Yet still this leaves the Mystery where it was; this Charge is equal.