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GONZALEZ (snatching the Cross, and lifting it up).

Let the earth be shaken through its depths,

But this must triumph!

ABDULLAH (coldly).

Be it as thou wilt.

—Unsheath the scimetar![To his Guards.

GARCIAS (to GONZALEZ).

Away, my chief!

This is your place no longer. There are things
No human heart, though battle-proof as yours,
Unmadden'd may sustain.

GONZALEZ.

Be still! I have now

No place on earth but this!

ALPHONSO (from beneath).

Men! give me way,

That I may speak forth once before I die!

GARCIAS.

The princely boy!—how gallantly his brow

Wears its high nature in the face of death!

ALPHONSO.

Father!

GONZALEZ.

My son! my son!—Mine eldest-born!