and advances towards HONORA; she rushes into his arms._]

HONORA.

It is enough! He lives, and _I_ shall save him.
[_She faints in the arms of ANDRE._

ANDRE.

She sinks--assist me, Bland! O, save her, save her!
[_Places her in a chair, and looks tenderly on her._
Yet, why should she awake from that sweet sleep!
Why should she open her eyes--[_Wildly._]--to see me hung!
What does she here? Stand off--[_Tenderly._]--and let her die.
How pale she looks! how worn that tender frame!--
She has known sorrow! Who could injure her?

BLAND.

She revives--Andre--soft, bend her forward.
[_ANDRE kneels and supports her._

HONORA.

Andre--!

ANDRE.

Lov'd excellence!

HONORA.

Yes, it is Andre! [_Rises and looks at him._
No more deceived by visionary forms,
By him supported-- [_Leans on him._

ANDRE.

Why is this?
Thou dost look pale, Honora--sick and wan--
Languid thy fainting limbs--

HONORA.

All will be well.
But was it kind to leave me as thou didst--?
So rashly to desert thy vow-link'd wife?--

ANDRE.

When made another's both by vows and laws--

HONORA [_quitting his support_].

What meanest thou?

ANDRE.

Didst thou not marry him?

HONORA.

Marry!

ANDRE.

Didst thou not give thy hand away
From me?

HONORA.

O, never, never!

ANDRE.

Not married?

HONORA.

To none but thee, and but in will to thee.

ANDRE.

O blind, blind wretch!--Thy father told me----

HONORA.

Thou wast deceived. They hurried me away,
Spreading false rumours to remove thy love--
[_Tenderly._] Thou didst too soon believe them.

ANDRE.

Thy father--
How could I but believe Honora's father?
And he did tell me so. I reverenced age,
Yet knew, age was not virtue. I believed
His snowy locks, and yet they did deceive me!
I have destroy'd myself and thee!--Alas!
Ill-fated maid! why didst thou not forget me?
Hast thou rude seas and hostile shores explor'd
For this? To see my death? Witness my shame?

HONORA.

I come to bless thee, Andre; and shall do it.
I bear such offers from thy kind Commander,
As must prevail to save thee. Thus the daughter
May repair the ills her cruel sire inflicted.
My father, dying, gave me cause t