ALFONSO.

You must record this as a miracle.
Does it belong, your Blessèdness,
To Pagan legend or the Church?

LUCREZIA.

To us.
But I repent I did not see him there,
Magnificent before all Rome.

ALEXANDER.

You sparkle!
I pardon you. He scarcely will.

[The Pope nods his head and rises to go.

LUCREZIA.

[Detaining him.] A peach!...
It is a little fountain
That grottoes under cloud of this red skin.
There, father, from my hand.

[The Pope seats himself again.