ROD. Seize this rebel priest.
I will alone subdue my enemies. [Goes out.


THIRD ACT: SECOND SCENE.


RAMIRO and OSMA enter from opposite sides.

RAM. Where is the king? his car is at the gate,
His ministers attend him, but his foes
Are yet more prompt, nor will await delay.

OSMA. Nor need they--for he meets them as I speak.

RAM. With all his forces? or our cause is lost.
Julian and Sisabert surround the walls.

OSMA. Surround, sayst thou? enter they not the gates?

RAM. Perhaps ere now they enter.

OSMA. Sisabert
Brings him our prisoner.

RAM. They are friends! they held
A parley; and the soldiers, when they saw
Count Julian, lowered their arms and hailed him king?