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Utter wild ravings. Solitude and stillness
Are necessary. Pardon me this boldness.

LEONORA.

Thou'st seen him thus before?

DIEGO.

It is a natural infirmity;

Let all retire and leave him.

LEONORA (motions all to retire but Carlos).

Don Carlos will remain. (To Diego.)

DIEGO.

None but yourself, I do beseech you, Madam;

And I will watch by you till he recover.

[Exeunt all but Diego, Leonora, and Henriquez, who, while she hangs over him, groans as before.

LEONORA.

That groan again! My dear—my dear Henriquez!

Alas! that look! thine agony is great:
That motion too. (He rises.) Why dost thou stare around?
We are alone; surely thou wilt not leave me.
Where would'st thou be?

HENRIQUEZ.

I' the blackest gulph of hell;

The deepest den of misery and pain;
Woe bound to woe—the cursed with the cursed!