l take the key.

[Takes the key.]

Would thou could'st speak,
Thou little instrument, and tell me all
The secrets of thy office! My heart beats;
'Tis my first enterprise; I would it were
To do him service. No, I cannot go;
Farewell, kind sir; indeed I am so troubled,
I must retire.

[Exit COUNTESS.]

IV:2:23 SIDO.
Thy virtue makes me vile;
And what should move my heart inflames my soul.
O marvellous world, wherein I play the villain
From very love of excellence! But for him,
I'd be the rival of her stainless thoughts
And mate her purity. Hah!

[Enter ORAN.]

IV:2:24 ORAN.
My noble lord!

IV:2:25 SIDO.
The Moor!

IV:2:26 ORAN.
Your servant.

IV:2:27 SIDO.
Here! 'tis passing strange.
How's this?

IV:2:28 ORAN.
The accident of war, my lord.
I am a prisoner.

IV:2:29 SIDO.
But at large, it seems.
You have betrayed me

IV:2:30 ORAN.
Had I chosen that,
I had been free and you not here. I fought,
And fell in single fight. Why spared I know not,
But that the lion's generous.

IV:2:31 SIDO.
Will you prove
Your faith

IV:2:32 ORAN.
Nay, doubt it not.

IV:2:33 SIDO.
You still can aid me.

IV:2:34 ORAN.
I am no traitor, and my friends shall find
I am not wanting.

IV:2:35 SIDO.
Quit these liberal walls
Where you're not watched. In brief, I've coined a tale
Has touched the Countess to the quick. She seeks,
Alone or scantly tended, even now,
The palace gardens; eager to discover
A faithless husband, where she'll chance to find
One more devout. My steeds and servants wait
At the right post; my distant castle soon
Shall ho