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OTHO THE GREAT.
There goes a spotted soulHowling in vain along the hollow night!Hear him! He calls you—sweet Auranthe, come!
 Auranthe. Kill me!
 Ludolph. No! What? Upon our marriage night?The earth would shudder at so foul a deed!A fair bride! A sweet bride! An innocent bride!No! we must revel it, as 'tis in useIn times of delicate brilliant ceremony:Come, let me lead you to our halls again!Nay, linger not; make no resistance, sweet;—Will you? Ah, wretch, thou canst not, for I haveThe strength of twenty lions 'gainst a lamb![Exeunt.Now—one adieu for Albert!—Come away!
Scene III.—An inner Court of the Castle.
Enter Sigifred, Gonfred, and Theodore, meeting.
 1st Knight. Was ever such a night?
 Sigifred.What horrors more?Things unbelieved one hour, so strange they are,The next hour stamps with credit.
 1st Knight.Your last news?
 Gonfred. After the page's story of the deathOf Albert and Duke Conrad?
 Sigifred.And the returnOf Ludolph with the Princess.
 Gonfred.No more, savePrince Gersa's freeing Abbot Ethelbert,And the sweet lady, fair Erminia,From prison.
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