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SCENE VI. -- A retired spot beyond the city gates. Enter VICTORIAN and HYPOLITO.
Vict. O shame! O shame! Why do I walk abroad / By daylight, when the very sunshine mocks me, / And voices, and familiar sights and sounds / Cry, "Hide thyself! " O what a thin partition / Doth shut out from the curious world the knowledge / Of evil deeds that have been done in darkness! / Disgrace has many tongues. My fears are windows, / Through which all eyes seem gazing. Every face / Expresses some suspicion of my shame, / And in derision seems to smile at me!