to prove it.

V:3:24 ALAR.
Good, good, Oran.
It is an hour to midnight?

V:3:25 ORAN.
The moon is not
Within her midnight bower, yet near.

V:3:26 ALAR.
So late!
The Countess sleeps?

V:3:27 ORAN.
She has long retired.

V:3:28 ALAR.
She sleeps,
O, she must wake no more!

V:3:29 ORAN.
Thy wife!

V:3:30 ALAR.
It must
Be done, ere yet the Castle chime shall tell
Night wanes.

V:3:31 ORAN.
Thy wife! God of my fathers! none
Can do this deed!

V:3:32 ALAR.
Upon thy hand it rests.
The deed must fall on thee.

V:3:33 ORAN.
I will not do it.

V:3:34 ALAR.
Thine oath, thine oath! Hast thou forgot thine oath?
Thou owest me a life, and now I claim it.
What, hast thou trifled with me? Hast thou fooled
With one whose point was at thy throat? Beware!
Thou art my slave, and I have branded thee
With this infernal ransom!

V:3:35 ORAN.
I am thy slave,
And I will be thy slave, and all my days
Devoted to perdition. Not for gold
Or worldly worth; to cheer no aged parent,
Though I have one, a mother; not to bask
My seed within thy beams; to feed no passions
And gorge no craving vanity; but because
Thou gavest me life, and led to that which made
That life for once delicious. O, great sir,
The King's thy foe? Surrounded by his guards
I would waylay him. Hast thou some fierce rival?
I'll pluck his heart out. Yea! there is no peril
I'd not confront, no rack I'll not endure,
No great offence commit, to do thee service--
So thou wilt spare me this, and spare thy soul
This unmatched sin.

V:3:36 ALAR.
I had exhausted suffering
Ere I