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A TRAGEDY
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That I on this astounding ridge am pois'd!
On ev'ry side a fearful ruin yawns.

(A voice heard without, uttering wild incoherent words, mixed with shrieks of horror.)

What frenzied voice is that?


Enter Fourth Vassal, as if terribly frightened.


LOCHTARISH, (to Fourth Vassal.)

What brings thee hither?


FOURTH VASSAL.

He fixes wildly on the gloomy void

His starting eyeballs, bent on fearful sights,
That make the sinews of his aged limbs
In agony to quiver.

LOCHTARISH.

Who didst thou say?


FOURTH VASSAL.

John of the Isle, the sighted awful man.

Go, see yourselves: i' the outer cave he is.
Entranced he stands; arrested on his way
By horrid visions, as he hurried hither
Enquiring for the chief.
(Voice heard without, as before.)