_Leon._ To stab your friend were barbarous indeed! Spare him--and murder me. _Alon._ First perish all! No, Leonora, I am thine for ever. [_embraces her._ _Leon._ Hold, Alonzo, And hear a maid whom doubly thou hast conquer'd. I love thy virtue as I love thy person, And I adore thee for the pains it gave me; But as I felt the pains, I'll reap the fruit; I'll shine out in my turn, and show the world Thy great example was not lost upon me. Nay, never shrink; take back the bright example You lately lent; Oh, take it while you may, While I can give it you, and be immortal! [_exit._ _Alon._ She's gone, and I shall see that face no more; But pine in absence, and till death adore. When with cold dew my fainting brow is hung, And my eyes darken, from my falt'ring tongue Her name will tremble in a feeble moan, And love with fate divide my dying groan. [_exit._ ACT THE SECOND. SCENE I. THE SAME. _Enter Don Manuel and Zanga._ _Zan._ If this be true, I cannot blame your pain For wretched Carlos; 'tis but humane in you. But when arriv'd your dismal news? _Man._ This hour. _Zan._ What, not a vessel sav'd? _Man._ All, all, the storm Devour'd; and now o'er his late envy'd fortune The dolphins bound, and wat'ry mountains roar, Triumphant in his ruin. _Zan._ Is Alvarez Determin'd to deny his daughter to him. That treasure was on shore; must that too join The common wreck? _Man._ Alvarez pleads, indeed, That Leonora's heart is disinclin'd, And pleads that only; so it was this morning, When he coucurr'd: the tempest broke the match; And sunk his favour, when it sunk the gold. The love of gold is double in his heart; The vice of age, and of Alvarez too. _Zan._ How does don Carlos bear it? _Man._ Like a man Whose heart feels most a human heart can feel, And reasons best a human head can reason. _Zan._ But is he then in absolute despair? _Man._ Never to see his Leonora more. And, quite to quench all future hope, Alvarez Urges Alonzo to espouse his daughter This very day; for he has learn'd their loves. _Zan._ Ha! was not that receiv'd with ecstasy By don Alonzo? _Man._ Yes, at first; but soon A damp came o'er him, it would kill his friend. _Zan._ Not if his friend consented: and since now He can't himself espouse her-- _Man._ Yet, to ask it Has something shocking to a gen'rous mind; At least, Alonzo's spirit startles at it. Wide is the distance between our despair, And giving up a mistress to another. But I must leave you. Carlos wants support In his severe affliction. [_exit._ _Zan._ Ha, it dawns!-- It rises to me, like a new-found world To mariners long time distress'd at sea, Sore from a storm, and all their viands spent; Or like the sun just rising out of chaos, Some dregs of ancient night not quite purg'd off. But shall I finish it?--Hoa, Isabella! _Enter Isabella._