CRASSUS.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
ALICIA.
Hush, you coarse slave; we'll surprise
Your good wife in her mystic exercise.
Quick, through the bramble!
[They burst through upon ADELA.]
CRASSUS.
Now, you beast, I've got you!
The curst of God, and plague of Naples, rot you!
For this white brute - one slit!
[He cuts the throat of THE SWAN with
his dagger.]
ADELA.
Oh love betrayed!
O my dead beauty! Faugh! deceitful maid.
Not Crassus found me out. Had I the wings
Of my dead love - oh love! -
ALICIA.
Why, wondrous things!
ADELA.
These nails shall serve. A servant!
CRASSUS.
She shall be
My wife, damned witch, when I have done with thee!
[THE SWAN dies.]
ADELA.
I'll kill her now. But see! my swan is dead.
ALICIA.
Yes! and what light is breaking overhead?
What blaze of blue and gold envelops us?
CRASSUS.
O marvel! O miraculous!