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SIEGE OF VALENCIA.
And all unblemish'd, earth should offer up
Her treasures unto Heaven!
GARCIAS (to GONZALEZ).
Hath led your child forth.
GONZALEZ (starting).
I knew they could not perish; for yon Heaven
Would ne'er behold it!—Where is he that said
I was no more a father?—They look changed—
Pallid and worn, as from a prison-house!
Or is 't mine eye sees dimly?—But their steps
Seem heavy, as with pain.—I hear the clank—
Oh God! their limbs are fetter'd!
ABDULLAH (coming forward beneath the walls).
Once more upon thy children. There is yet
One moment for the trembling of the sword;
Their doom is still with thee.
GONZALEZ.
So mock us with the semblance of our kind?
—Moor! Moor! thou dost too daringly provoke,
In thy bold cruelty, th' all-judging One,
