_Almanz._ Ye gods, why are not hearts first paired above, But some still interfere in others' love! Ere each for each by certain marks are known, You mould them up in haste, and drop them down; And, while we seek what carelessly you sort, You sit in state, and make our pains your sport. [_Exeunt on both sides._ ACT IV. SCENE I. _Enter_ ABENAMAR, _and Soldier._ _Aben._ Haste and conduct the prisoner to my sight. [_Exit Soldier, and immediately enters with_ SELIN _bound._ _Aben._ Did you, according to my orders, write? [_To_ SELIN And have you summoned Ozmyn to appear? _Selin._ I am not yet so much a slave to fear, Nor has your son deserved so ill of me, That by his death or bonds I would be free. _Aben._ Against thy life thou dost the sentence give; Behold how short a time thou hast to live. _Selin._ Make haste, and draw the curtain while you may; You but shut out the twilight of my day. Beneath the burden of my age I bend: You kindly ease me ere my journey's end. [_To them a Soldier with_ OZMYN; OZMYN _kneels._ _Aben._ to _Selin._ It is enough, my promise makes you free; Resign your bonds, and take your liberty. _Ozm._ Sir, you are just, and welcome are these bands; 'Tis all the inheritance a son demands. _Selin._ Your goodness, O my Ozmyn, is too great; I am not weary of my fetters yet: Already, when you move me to resign, I feel them heavier on your feet than mine. _Enter another Soldier._ _Sold._ A youth attends you in the outer room, Who seems in haste, and does from Ozmyn come. _Aben._ Conduct him in.-- _Ozm._ Sent from Benzayda, I fear, to me. _To them_ BENZAYDA, _in the habit of a man._ _Benz._ My Ozmyn here! _Ozm._ Benzayda! 'tis she!-- Go youth, I have no business for thee here; Go to the Albayzyn, and attend me there. I'll not be long away; I pray thee go, By all our love and friendship-- _Benz._ Ozmyn, no: I did not take on me this bold disguise, For ends so low, to cheat your watchmen's eyes. When I attempted this, it was to do An action, to be envied even by you; But you, alas, have been too diligent, And what I purposed fatally prevent! Those chains, which for my father I would bear, I take with less content to find you here; Except your father will that mercy show, That I may wear them both for him and you. _Aben._ I thank thee, fortune! thou hast, in one hour, Put all I could have asked thee in my power. My own lost wealth thou giv'st not only back, But driv'st upon my coast my pirate's wreck. _Selin._ With Ozmyn's kindness I was grieved before, But yours, Benzayda, has' undone me more. _Aben._ to a _Soldier._ Go fetch new fetters, and the daughter bind. _Ozm._ Be just at least, sir, though you are not kind: Benzayda is not as a prisoner brought, But comes to suffer for another's fault.