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JOSÉ PEON Y CONTRERAS.

when I ought to hate you? Why ought I to hate you, when I love you with all my heart?—What is this?—Aye! Aye! I cannot. I cannot more.

(The curtain falls darkly on the scene. A short pause.)


SCENE VII.

Viceroy: Sancho——

Sancho: Enter sir! So great an honor!—

V.: I have already told you, Sancho, that I love you as a son. It is not the Viceroy of Mexico, who comes now to your house. I enter it as a friend. Receive me as such.

S.: And—to what, then, do I owe this pleasure? Seat yourself, sir, seat yourself.

(The Viceroy seats himself.)

V.: I come to you, Sancho,

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