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gence, from which he had at laft been relieved by death, ha- 

 ving fallen fighting gallantly in an action with the infidels, and 

 in his lad words had breathed out the name of his father and 

 of his Amelia. The old Count feels this relation as his inhu- 

 man fon expected ; he faints at its clofe, and is carried off life- 

 lefs from the ftage. The traitor Francis reaps the fruit of his 

 villany ; he reaps, but his confcience does not permit him to 

 enjoy it ; and he is ever after prefented as the martyr of re- 

 morfe, haunted by the terrors of inward guilt. His aflbciate 

 Herman appears to yield to contrition ; he braves the anger of 

 his lord, and refolves to embrace the firft opportunity of coun- 

 teracting his villany. 



Though the great and the terrible be the moft prominent 

 features of this drama, there are fcenes in which the pathetic 

 and the tender prevail in a very uncommon degree ; and the 

 impreflion they make on the reader is heightened by the con- 

 trail of that bold unbending fpirit which he fees melted by 

 their force. One of thefe, the fecond fcene of the third act, is 

 fo ftriking, that I cannot forbear laying it before the Society in 

 Englifh. They will make allowance for what it muft lofe in 

 this form, when they confider that it is the tranflation of a 

 tranflation. 



The band are encamped on a height on the banks of the 

 Danube, after a hard-fought battle with a party of Bohemian 

 horfe, which had been fent to take them ; but which, by the 

 unparalleled valour and exertions of Moor and his friends, they 

 had defeated. He enters, overcome with fatigue and thirft. 



" I must reft here, {throwing himfelf on the ground) \ my 

 limbs are broken with fatigue, and my parched tongue 

 cleaves to my mouth. I would have afked fome of you to 

 fetch me a little water from that river, but you too are weary 

 almoft to death. (One of the band goes out, anperceived by Moor t 

 to fetch him fome water.) 



u Grim, 



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