As pants the heart for the water-brook, so I!

[He bows his head. Michal in rags that disguise, enters with the Lad, unseen.]

Her lips it was that hurled me unto this!

Yet, yet not violence on him and blood!

I must revenge’s call within me quell,

Though righteously it quivers and aflame.

[He goes slowly into the cave, Right.]

MICHAL

This is the place, then, this?

LAD