That is in my own keeping: You may still
Refuse to grant, so I have power to take.
The man that asks, deserves to be deny'd.
Enter BLANFORD behind him.
Imo. He does indeed, that asks unworthily.
Blan. You hear her sir; that asks unworthily.
Gov. You are no judge.
Blan. I am of my own slave.
Gov. Be gone, and leave us.
Blan. When you let her go.
Gov. To fasten upon you.
Imo. Help! murder! help!
Gov. She shall not 'scape me so.
far,
Not to go farther. Curse on my delay;
But yet she is, and shall be in my power.
Blan. Nay, then it is the war of honesty;
I know you, and will save you from yourself.
Oro. To honour bound! and yet a slave to love! I am distracted by their rival powers,
And both will be obey'd. O, great revenge!
Thou raiser and restorer of fall'n fame!
Let me not be unworthy of thy aid,
For stopping in thy course: I still am thine;
But can't forget I am Imoinda's too.
She calls me from my wrongs to rescue her.
No man condemn me, who has never felt