text:  Thou! my mother--my long-lost--my beloved--most wretched mother in that dreadful garb!--condemned to die by thy own infatuated son! Would that I _were_ mad and that I could close my brain to so much horror! But thou shalt not die my mother--thou shalt not die! Thou are innocent! I will proclaim thy innocence to all! They will believe my word--will they not? For it was I who testified against thee