If any power might melt to mutual love

That too-cold heart. But still, no other chance

Is left but this alone: if I should force

Those loving souls apart, then 'twere my turn.

Am I a monster, then, to will this wrong?

Nay, but a lovesick woman only, willing

To dare all for her passion. Though I loathe

Those crooked ways, yet love, despite myself,

Drives me relentless onward.

Enter Gycia.