Cheer my heart and glad my eyes.

My brain ascend on fancy's wing,

'Noint me, wine, a jovial king.

While I live, I'll lave my clay,

When I'm dead and gone away,

Let my thirsty subjects say,

A month he reign'd, but that was May.

[Thunder.]

Don Cæsar. Hark, how distinct we hear the thunder through this vast body of earth and rock.—Rapino, is Calvette above, upon his post?

Rap. Yes.