I speed to joy and liberty, and abandon you to death and eternal torments.' 'Yet stay one moment, Matilda! You command the infernal Daemons: You can force open these prison doors; You can release me from these chains which weigh me down.

Save me, I conjure you, and bear me from these fearful abodes!' 'You ask the only boon beyond my power to bestow.

I am forbidden to assist a Churchman and a Partizan of God: Renounce those titles, and command me.' 'I will not sell my soul to perdition.' 'Persist in your obstinacy, till you find yourself at the Stake: Then will you repent your error, and sigh for escape when the moment is gone by.

I quit you.

Yet ere the hour of death arrives should wisdom enlighten you, listen to the means of repairing your present fault.