If first we do not wed us to her rival!
Is it not so?
Rizzio (with passion).
Or sun has never shone!
So in! the tarantelle! (as Tasso enters) And then a song
From Messer Tasso, who would be divine,
[Greets him.
Did he love Venus as he fears the Church,
Apollo as he shuns the Inquisition!
In!—Osio, will you come?