terable!--fights of horrour!
All welt'ring in their gore--haste! haste with me. [They go off.]

[Back Scene opens and discovers Mrs. ANDREWS's bedchamber--
Lord BELMOUR on the ground with his sword in his hand bloody,
and Mr. ANDREWS with his also drawn and bloody, in a fix'd
posture, resting on it, and looking on the ground.]

GOODWIN. O heav'n! what havock's here! [To ANDREWS] Alas!
my friend,
What have you done?

WILSON. He's quite insensible.
Perhaps this woman can inform us--speak--

MARIA. I will, I will. Hearing the bell twice rung
With violence unusual from the chamber
In which my mistress lay, I thither flew;
Where entering, with amazement I beheld
Lord Belmour there, and her upon her knees:
Sudden, my master, with an unsheath'd sword
In rage rush'd in, and instantly assail'd him,
(Who also had drawn his) they fought awhile;
When with a hideous groan lord Belmour reel'd,
Bit quick recovering, with doubled fury
At his assailant made--when, she, quite wild,
Rush'd on lord Belmour's sword, and fell with him.

WILSON. 'Tis better done by him, than by our friend.

ANDREWS. Done--What done? all is not done as yet--this--

[He is going to stab himself, GOODWIN and WILSON rush on him,
and wrest his sword from him.]

GOODWIN. What would your madness do? too much already,
This fatal scene exhibits to our view.

ANDREWS. Deaf, deaf to all,--away,--away with counsel!--
'Tis clear as noonday light--burst--burst, my brain!--

Lord BELMOUR. Listen--oh listen to a dying criminal--
Your wife is innocent--I, I alone--

ANDREWS. Peace, villain, peace!--how came you in her chamber?

Lord BELMOUR. Without her knowledge--Oh! 'twas by that woman,
[Pointing to MARIA]
My vile accomplice in the soul attempt.

MARIA. Mercy! O mercy! and I'll tell the whole.
Oh! she is innocent--I, all to blame--

WILSON. 'Tis fit a magistrate be sent for instantly;
As also meet assistance to these wounded,
Who seem to need it much. [A servant goes off.]

Lord BELMOUR. Good sirs!
Let me be hence convey'd--I can't escape--
And heav'n will in some moments give full justice. [He is led out.]

ANDREWS. And let me also fly these scenes of horrour,
Or I shall wilder