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Ha! see I rightly?
Rosa from Mull?

ROSA.

Yes, Dugald; here thou see'st

A woeful bearer of unwelcome tidings.

DUGALD.

What, hath thy lady sent thee?

ROSA.

Alas, alas! I have no lady now.

DUGALD.

Ha! is she dead? not many days ago

She was alive and well.—Hast thou so soon
The castle quitted—left thy lady's corse?

ROSA.

Think'st thou I would have left her?—On the night

When, as they say, she died, I from the castle
By force was ta'en, and to mainland convey'd;
Where in confinement I remain'd, till chance
Gave me the means of breaking from my prison;
And hither am I come, in woeful plight,
The dismal tale to tell.