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JUSTINA; CYPRIAN, insensible on the ground.
JUSTINA. What! without a word you leave me? / When I come here, calm, contented, / Even to die. Ah! wishing death, / Am I then of death prevented? -- / [She perceives CYPRIAN. / But my punishment is, doubtless, / Thus locked up to face the terrors / Of a slow and lingering death, / With the body of this wretch here / Left alone, my sole companion / Being a corse. O thou, re-entered / Into thy original earth, / Happy wert thou, if thy sentence / Was passed on thee for the faith / I adore!