Amidst thy raging grief I must proclaim My innocence. Lady R. Thy innocence ! Lord R. My guilt 730 Is innocence compar'd with what thou think'st it. Who might make up to me their father's childhood, What am I now ?-I know.-But I shall be And such a husband drive me to my fate. [Runs out. Enter Old NORVAL. [Exit ANNA. Old Nor. I heard the voice of woe: Heaven guard my child! Lord R. Already is the idle gaping crowd, The spiteful vulgar, come to gaze on Randolph. Old Nor. I fear thee not. I will not go. 750 With thee in murder. Yes, my sins did help These are the hairs that should have strew'd the ground, And not the locks of Douglas. [Tears his hair, and throws himself upon the body of Douglas. Lord R. I know thee now: thy boldness I forgive: "My crest is fallen." For thee I will appoint Enter ANNA. Anna. My lord! My lord! Lord R. Speak: I can hear of horror. Anna. Horror, indeed! Lord R. Matilda ? 770 Anna. Is no more: She ran, she flew like lightning up the hill, Lord R. 'Twas I alas! 'twas I That fill'd her breast with fury; drove her down 780 Anna. Oh, had you seen her last despairing look! Upon the brink she stood, and cast her eyes Down on the deep: then lifting up her head And her white hands to Heaven, seeming to say, Why am I forc'd to this? she plung'd herself Into the empty air. Lord R. I will not vent, In vain complaints, the passion of my soul. These wounds the gratitude of Randolph gave ; They speak aloud, and with the voice of fate EPILOGUE. AN Epilogue I ask'd; but not one word Our bard will write. He vows 'tis most absurd Of tragedy and make your sorrows vain. And when its waves retire, like those of Nile, A TRAGEDY. BY JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq. ADAPTED FOR THEATRICAL represenTATION, AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRES-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, AND COVENT-GARDEN. REGULATED FROM THE PROMPT-BOOKS, "The Lines distinguished by inverted Commas, are omitted in the Representation." LONDON: Printed for the Proprietors, under the Direction of JOHN BELL, British Library, STRAND, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. M DCC XCI. |