But in her only name, the proud _Erota_.

Gaspero:

Alas, _Melitus_, I should guess the best
Success your Prince could find from her, to be
As harsh as the event doth prove: but now
'Tis not a time to pity passionate griefs,
When a whole Kingdom in a manner lyes
Upon its Death-Bed bleeding.

Melitus:

Who can tell
Whether or no these plagues at once
Hang over this unhappy Land for her sake
That is a Monster in it?

Gaspero:

Here's the misery
Of having a Child our Prince; else I presume
The bold _Venetians_ had not dar'd to attempt
So bloody an invasion.

Melitus:

Yet I wonder
Why (Master Secretary) still the Senate
So almost superstitiously adores