CARDINAL PALLAVICINI.

And I away from Rome!

ALEXANDER.

Poto, shut down that casement.
Hoo! I shiver—shiver!
A cold so keen and violent.

CARDINAL PALLAVICINI.

I will aid him.
Your Holiness is prudent.
[At the window.] What a shock
And surge among the roofs.

[With a crash the ceiling falls in over the Pope.

O God!
What is it? What has happened?
Is he dead?

POTO.

Oh, oh, oh! The Pope is dead.