Osio.

Have him fling it forth? Hush! what is here?

[A knocking at the gate: amazed cries: then Rizzio's voice.

Porzia.

Rizzio! Rizzio! Rizzio!

Rizzio (without).

Porzia! Porzia!

[He enters, weak and worn, in tattered raiment, and comes down to where she gazes too overcome to embrace him.

Rizzio.

My Porzia! (With a clasp.) O do I look upon you,