ALEXANDER.

[Clapping and humming with delight.

More, more!
Could I but make these orbits everlasting,
God on the Earth had then His praise forever,
His music of the heavens.... My gold stars,
Each with its angel in a glory.
More!

[The dance goes on to music and hand-clapping.

SCENE III

The Vatican: Sala dei Pontifici.

The Lord Alexander and Donna Lucrezia Borgia d’Este. She is in a crimson travelling-dress, with hat and feather.

ALEXANDER.

And now we part!

LUCREZIA.