Hath eaten life out! Let him curse and hate me!

Yet that were hard to bear! My misery, sure

Might claim some pity! I would fain be thought on

With grief, but not with scorn. I’d be remembered

Like a dim, far off vision, wan and sad,

Leaving a mournful yet a softened image,

Mellowed by passing time to tenderer hues,

To fade at length, like tremulous light, away!

Enter Stefano with a paper.

Stefano.