elm
With penalty!

CHARLES (_rousing_): No! all and ever false
Was he who's so when most he should be true!
I will make treachery bitter to all time.
Bring dread on all to whom are given sons!
Down generations shall they peer and tremble,
Look on me as on majesties accursed!--
Search every shade--search, search! You stand as death.
I am in famine till he gives me groan!
(_They go in opposite directions._

_Enter FULVIA, distressed, and GIULIA._

FULVIA: He was with Haemon?

GIULIA: On that seat.

FULVIA: Convulsed,
Yet passionless?

GIULIA: His words were low

FULVIA: Why were
You not asleep?

GIULIA: I----

FULVIA: Did he beat his hands
Briefly--and then no more?

GIULIA: I was behind----

FULVIA: And could not see? But heard their names?
The Greek is still without?

GIULIA: My lady, yes.

FULVIA: Your voice is guilty. How came Haemon in?
Answer me, answer! No, go quickly! If
The duke has entered now and sleeps! Or if----!

(_Words and swords are heard, then a shriek from HELENA.
CHARLES rushes in furious and wounded in the arm, followed
by HELENA, ANTONIO, who is dazed, and from Castle side by
HAEMON, guards, etc._)

ANTONIO: You, you, sir? father? I knew it not, so swift
Your rage fell on me.

CHARLES (_to a guard_): Gaping, ghastly fool!
Do you behold him murderous and lay
No hand on him!

ANTONIO: But, sir----!

CHARLES: Let him not fawn
About me! Seize him! God forgives not Hell.
Not this blood only but my soul's be on him.

HELENA: O, do not, he----

CHARLES: Stand! stand! Touch me not with
Your voice or eyes or being! They are soft
With perfidy, and stole me to believe
There's sweetness in a flower, light in air,
And beauty in the innocence of earth.
Bind him! Leucadia's just cliff awaits
All traitors--'tis the law, they must be flung
Out on the dizzy and supportless wind.

FULVIA: But this shall never be! No, though your looks
Heave out with hate upon me.

CHARLES (_convulsed, then coldly_): You are dead,
And speak to me. Once you were Fulvia--
No more! And once my friend, now but a ghost
Whom I must gaze upon forgetlessly.