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ACT V.

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Scene I.—A Prison.

Arrezi and the Confessor.

ARREZI.

Thou bring'st my youth again; thou who didst link

Her faith to mine—the lost and the beloved.
Fateful to me has been thy ministering;
It has been thine, oh! ancient priest, to bless
My marriage and my scaffold!

CONFESSOR.

Not on the past, my son, fix thou thy thoughts,

But on the solemn future!

ARREZI.

I cannot choose: I sought thee out for years.

Give me to know her fate—my secret bride—
Soon lost, but long beloved—and I will turn
From thee to thy companion—death!

CONFESSOR.

When the proud Castrucani forced thy bride