Glen Collection of printed music > Printed text > Composite volume > Alonzo

A L O N Z O. 31
Squadrons entire, and trampled on the necks
Of lirmeft warriors ?
TERESA.
'Tis not yet decreed
That he ihall fight the Moor. The Itranger knight,
Who was at firft miftaken for Alonzo,
Comes not fo far, without a name in arms.
To gain the fufFrage of the Peers of Spain,
When once that name is known.
ORMISINDA.
Terefa, no.
My fate has ftill one even tenor held.
From bad to worfe. When I had fram'd my mind
To one difafter, then a greater came.
I had made death familiar to my thoughts ;
I could embrace the fpe6lre like a friend:
But llill I kept a corner of my heart
Safe and untouch'd. My deareft child was there ;
Amidft the ruins of the wife and queen,
The mother ftood fecure. O thou Alonzo !
If yet thine eyes behold the light of day.
What forrow and remorfe muft be thy portion.
When thou fhalt hear — Now promife me, Terefa,
That when my fon and I are laid in dull,
(For each event accelerates our- doom)
Thou wilt feek out and find this cruel man.
Tell him how Spain, the kingdom of his fathers.
By him deferted, was for ever loft ;
How