as soon as he doubts, and is full of rage, insults, and threats. However,
this day I will shut my eyes to everything that makes him odious to me,
and out of mere kindness afford him an opportunity of being reconciled,
though he insulted me anew. This great rage with which you attacked me
proceeds from what you accidentally saw; I should be wrong to deny what
you have seen; I own you might have some reason to be disturbed at it.

GARC. And is it not...

ELV. Listen to me a little longer, and you shall know what I have
resolved. It is necessary that our fates should be decided. You are now
upon the brink of a great precipice; you will either fall over it, or
save yourself, according to the resolution you shall take. If,
notwithstanding what you have seen, Prince, you act towards me as you
ought, and ask no other proof but that I tell you you are wrong; if you
readily comply with my wishes and are willing to believe me innocent
upon my word alone, and no longer yield to every suspicion, but blindly
believe what my heart tells you; then this submission, this proof of
esteem, shall cancel all your offences; I instantly retract what I said
when excited by well-founded anger. And if hereafter I can choose for
myself, without prejudicing what I owe to my birth, then my honour,
being satisfied with the respect you so quickly show, promises to reward
your love with my heart and my hand. But listen now to what I say. If
you care so little for my offer as to refuse completely to abandon your
jealous suspicions; if the assurance which my heart and birth give you
do not suffice; if the mistrust that darkens your mind compels me,
though innocent, to convince you, and to produce a clear proof of my
offended virtue, I am ready to do so, and you shall be satisfied; but
you must then renounce me at once, and for ever give up all pretensions
to my hand. I swear by Him who rules the Heavens, that, whatever fate