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Ulamar promises also that the Angians will be disarmed. 
Beaufort further says that the English will punish this defection of 
the Iroquois by leaving them to the mercies of their new allies which 
he characterizes as dreadful cruelty. 
A touching scene next takes place between Beaufort and Ulamar. 
Ulamar fears that he has forever lost his friend and he tries to justify 
himself by saying that his mother’s life had been involved. Beaufort 
then gives utterance to a sentiment which is several times made prom- 
inent in the drama. 
“Yes, yes, I guess the catse, 
And this is what has captivated Europe 
Where they domestic interest most prefer 
Before the weal and honour of their country, 
Though private good on public weal depends 
And he who for his house betrays his country 
Betrays his family, betrays his children 
All his posterity to shameful ruin 
And makes them poor, precarious, abject, base, 
Instead of happy, rich, or great, or brave, 
And this, fond youth, thou surely too wilt find.” 
Seeing Ulamar’s distress Beaufort assures him of continued love. 
He reminds Ulamar that he had that very evening given up Irene to 
him which argued no common friendship. He thus laments their parting 
“And yet thou hast deprived me of thyself too, 
Irene now is thine and thou art hers 
She soon will comfort thee for Beaufort’s absence 
But only death can drive away my grief 
For I shall never, -never see thee more.” 
Ulamar begs Beaufort to delay his departure; but Beaufort answers 
that he cannot trust the French and Hurons not to attack his troops 
and he must convey them to a place of security. Ulamar then shows 
solicitude for Beaufort’s own safety, saying: 
‘Tt is a gloomy and tempestuous night 
And thou hast a long league to march alone, 
And yet thou sayest there may be danger near.” 
But Beaufort replies: 
“O! I have lost all that I hold most dear! 
The entirely wretched need ne danger fear.” 
Act IV begins with a soliloquy of Ulamar, commencing: 
“Beaufort, thy loss sits heavy on my soul 
For I shall never see thy like again.” 
