Seb. Help to support this feeble drooping flower. 
This tender sweet, so shaken by the storm;
For these fond arms must thus be stretched in vain,
And never, never must embrace her more. 
’Tis past:—­my soul goes in that word—­farewell.
                            [ALVAREZ goes with SEBASTIAN to one end
                             of the Stage; Women, with ALMEYDA, to
                             the other: DORAX coming up to ANTONIO
                             and MORAYMA, who stand on the middle
                             of the Stage.

Dor. Haste to attend Almeyda:—­For your sake
Your father is forgiven; but to Antonio
He forfeits half his wealth.  Be happy both;
And let Sebastian and Almeyda’s fate
This dreadful sentence to the world relate,—­
That unrepented crimes, of parents dead,
Are justly punished on their children’s head.

Footnotes: 
1.  This whimsical account of the Slave-market is probably taken from
   the following passage in the “Captivity and escape of Adam Elliot,
   M.A.”—­“By sun-rising next morning, we were all of us, who came
   last to Sallee, driven to market, where, the Moors sitting
   taylor-wise on stalls round about, we were severally run up and
   down by persons who proclaimed our qualities or trades, and what
   might best recommend us to the buyer.  I had a great black who was
   appointed to sell me; this fellow, holding me by the hand, coursed
   me up and down from one person to another, who called upon me at
   pleasure to examine what trade I was of, and to see what labour my
   hands had been accustomed to.  All the seamen were soon bought up,
   but it was mid-day ere I could meet with a purchaser.”—­See A
   modest Vindication of Titus Oates, London, 1682.

2.  The knight much wondered at his sudden wit;
     And said, The term of life is limited,
     Ne may a man prolong nor shorten it;
     The soldier may not move from watchful sted,
     Nor leave his stand until his captain bed.
                                   Fairy Queen, Book i.  Canto 9.

3.  The same artifice is used in “OEdipus,” vol. vi. p. 149. to
   impress, by a description of the feelings of the unfortunate pair
   towards each other, a presentiment of their fatal relationship.  The
   prophecy of Nostradamus is also obviously imitated from the
   response of the Delphic Pythoness to OEdipus.—­Ibid.  See p. 156.

4.  For, interpreter; more usually spelled dragoman.

5.  A horrid Moorish punishment.  The criminal was precipitated from a
   high tower upon iron scythes and hooks, which projected from its
   side.  This scene Settle introduces in one of his tragedies.

6.  These presages of misfortune may remind the reader of the ominous
   feelings of the Duke of Guise, in the scene preceding his murder. 
   The superstitious belief, that dejection of spirits, without cause,
   announces an impending violent death, is simply but well expressed
   in an old ballad called the “Warning to all Murderers:”