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(Too little to defend our guiltless lives)

Sufficient to discomfit 74 and confound

The trustless force of those false Christians!—

To arms, my lords! 75 on Christ still let us cry:

If there be Christ, we shall have victory.

[Exeunt.]

Alarms of battle within. Enter SIGISMUND wounded.

SIGISMUND. Discomfited is all the Christian 76 host,

And God hath thunder'd vengeance from on high,

For my accurs'd and hateful perjury.

O just and dreadful punisher of sin,

Let the dishonour of the pains I feel

In this my mortal well-deserved wound

End all my penance in my sudden death!

And let this death, wherein to sin I die,

Conceive a second life in endless mercy!

[Dies.]

Enter ORCANES, GAZELLUS, URIBASSA, with others.

ORCANES. Now lie the Christians bathing in their bloods,

And Christ or Mahomet hath been my friend.

GAZELLUS. See, here the perjur'd traitor Hungary,

Bloody and breathless for his villany!

ORCANES. Now shall his barbarous body be a prey