_Ind._ Now you shall know what cause you have to rage; But to increase your fury, not assuage: I found the way your brother's heart to move. Yet promised not the least return of love. His pride and brutal fierceness I abhor; But scorn your mean suspicions of me more. I owed my honour and my fame this care: Know what your folly lost you, and despair. [_Turning from him._ _Aur._ Too cruelly your innocence you tell: Shew heaven, and damn me to the pit of hell. Now I believe you; 'tis not yet too late: You may forgive, and put a stop to fate; Save me, just sinking, and no more to rise. [_She frowns._ How can you look with such relentless eyes? Or let your mind by penitence be moved, Or I'm resolved to think you never loved. You are not cleared, unless you mercy speak: I'll think you took the occasion thus to break. _Ind._ Small jealousies, 'tis true, inflame desire; Too great, not fan, but quite blow out the fire: Yet I did love you, till such pains I bore, That I dare trust myself and you no more. Let me not love you; but here end my pain: Distrust may make me wretched once again. Now, with full sails, into the port I move, And safely can unlade my breast of love; Quiet, and calm: Why should I then go back, To tempt the second hazard of a wreck? _Aur._ Behold these dying eyes, see their submissive awe; These tears, which fear of death could never draw: Heard you that sigh? from my heaved heart it past, And said,--"If you forgive not, 'tis my last." Love mounts, and rolls about my stormy mind, Like fire, that's borne by a tempestuous wind. Oh, I could stifle you, with eager haste! Devour your kisses with my hungry taste! Rush on you! eat you! wander o'er each part, Raving with pleasure, snatch you to my heart! Then hold you off, and gaze! then, with new rage, Invade you, till my conscious limbs presage Torrents of joy, which all their banks o'erflow! So lost, so blest, as I but then could know! _Ind._ Be no more jealous! [_Giving him her hand._ _Aur._ Give me cause no more: The danger's greater after, than before; If I relapse, to cure my jealousy, Let me (for that's the easiest parting) die. _Ind._ My life! _Aur._ My soul! _Ind._ My all that heaven can give! Death's life with you; without you, death to live. _To them,_ ARIMANT, _hastily._ _Arim._ Oh, we are lost, beyond all human aid! The citadel is to Morat betrayed. The traitor, and the treason, known too late; The false Abas delivered up the gate: Even while I speak, we're compassed round with fate. The valiant cannot fight, or coward fly; But both in undistinguished crowds must die. _Aur._ Then my prophetic fears are come to pass: Morat was always bloody; now, he's base: And has so far in usurpation gone, He will by parricide secure the throne. _To them, the Emperor._