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with prudence, even the half of my
crown may not be without your reach !
in vain did flie often attempt to interrupt
him, his very voice founding in her ears
worfe than the hifs of ferpents! But catch¬
ing at his laft words, Impious wretch!
faid fhe indignantly, and doft thou think
as bafely of my virtue as of thy own ! that
thou couldft repair thy treachery to me
by perfidy to thy Queen!—Be gone! let me
efcape from this manfion of devils, that
after exhaufting the remaining ftrength you
have left me, in invocations to heaven and
earth for vengeance, I may next bury my
diftrefs in the unreproaching grave!
Soothing being vain, he next reforts to
threats j and telling her, that Ihe, her
nephew, and whole family, being in his
power, if flie perfifted in.her obftinacy, nay,
if flie would not promife fecrecy, he would
make a fatal facrifice of every one of them
to his provoked refentment. Never was un¬
happy woman lb perplexed ; flie promifed
and unpromifed in the fame inftant, but
at laft imploring on her knees permiflioh to
inquire after her nephew’s health, and pro-
miling to admit him to her own apartment
in the afternoon, he gave her leave to re¬
tire.
4 The Council was now met, to hear and
judge of the information concerning Ban-
cbo’s