ting up with a wild
Confusion) Lost! say'st thou in the _Adriatick_? Your Son lost in the
_Adriatick_?' 'Yes, yes,' said _Rinaldo_, 'too surely lost in the
_Adriatick_.' 'O ye impartial Powers (said _Dangerfield_), why did you
not reveal this before? Or why not always conceal it? How happy had been
the Discovery some few Hours ago, and how Tragical is it now? For know,'
continued he, addressing himself to _Rinaldo_, 'know that my suppos'd
Father, who was a _Turky_ Merchant, upon his Death-bed call'd me to him,
and told me 'twas time to undeceive me, I was not his Son, he found me
in the _Adriatick_ Sea, ty'd to two Planks in his Voyage from _Smyrna_
to _London_; having no Children, he educated me as his own, and finding
me worth his Care, left me all his Inheritance with this dying Command,
that I shou'd seek my Parents at _Venice_.' _Belvideera_ hearkning all
this while to the lamentable Story, then conjectured whence proceeded
the natural Affection the whole Family bore him, and embracing him,
cry'd out, 'Oh my unhappy Brother.' _Maria_ all the while had strong and
wild Convulsions of Sorrow within her, 'till the working Force of her
Anguish racking at once all the Passages of her Breast, by a violent
Impulse, broke the Ligament that doubled in her Tongue, and she burst
out with this Exclamation; 'Oh! Incest, Incest.' _Dangerfield_ eccho'd
that Outcry with this, 'O! Horror, Horror, I have enjoy'd my Sister, and
murder'd my Father.' _Maria_ running distracted about the Chamber, at
last spy'd _Dangerfield's_ Sword, by which he had supported himself into
the House, and catching it up, reeking with the Blood of her Father,
plung'd it into her Heart, and throwing herself into _Dangerfield's_
Arms, calls out, 'O my Brother, O my Love,' and expir'd. All the
Neighbourhood was soon alarm'd by the Out-cries of the Family. I lodged
within three Doors of _Rinaldo's_ House, and running presently thither,
saw a more bloody Tragedy in Reality, than what the most moving Scene
ever presented; the Father and Daughter were both dead, the unfortunate
Son was gasping out his last, and the surviving Sister most miserable,
because she must survive such Misfortunes, cry'd to me; 'O! behold the
Fate of your wretched Countryman.' I cou'd make no Answer, being struck
dumb by the Horror of such woeful Objects; but _Dangerfield_ hearing her
name his Country, turning towards me, with a languishing and weak Tone,
'Madam,' said he, 'I was your Country