Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

The Fair Penitent. A Tragedy

London

Printed for Jacob Tonson

1703

"A Flood of Tenderness comes o'er my Soul; / I cannot speak!--I love! forgive! and pity thee."

HORATIO.
It is too much to bear! Look up, my Altamont!
My stubborn, unrelenting Heart has kill'd him.
Look up and bless me, tell me that thou liv'st.
Oh! I have urg'd thy Gentleness too far;
[He revives.]
Do thou and my Lavinia both forgive me;
A Flood of Tenderness comes o'er my Soul;
I cannot speak!--I love! forgive! and pity thee.--
(IV.i, p. 50)

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Reading Jean Marsden's edition in The Broadview Anthology of Restoration & Early Eighteenth-Century Drama (Peterborough, Broadview, 2001).

07/18/2013