PAOLO. More cause to haste me on my happy work.
[Exit with MALATESTA.
PEPE. I'm going, cousin.
LANCIOTTO. Go.
PEPE. Pray, ask me where.
LANCIOTTO. Where, then?
PEPE. To have my jewel carried home:
And, as I'm wise, the carrier shall be
A thief, a thief, by Jove! The fashion's new.
[Exit.
LANCIOTTO. In truth, I am too gloomy and irrational.
Paolo must be right. I always had
These moody hours and dark presentiments,
Without mischances following after them.
The camp is my abode. A neighing steed,
A fiery onset, and a stubborn fight,
Rouse my dull blood, and tire my body down
To quiet slumbers when the day is o'er,
And night above me spreads her spangled tent,
Lit by the dying cresset of the moon.
Ay, that is it; I'm homesick for the camp.
[Exit.
ACT II.
SCENE I. Ravenna. A Room in GUIDO'S Palace. Enter GUIDO and a CARDINAL.
CARDINAL. I warn thee, Count.