CARLOMAN.
[sharply] Have they bound me then?
Look, Boniface! And Pepin is a slave.
Nothing remains now in the world. That treaty,
That pact!
[Chilperic is taken before Zacharias and Pepin; they appear to address him, to consult with each other: then a monk advances and cuts off Chilperic’s long hair, while he weeps bitterly. Geneviva and Marcomir re-enter hurriedly as if they had heard bad news and see Carloman bound.]
GENEVIVA.
Be true to him.
MARCOMIR.
I will.
GENEVIVA.
Then share
His prison—say you left his monastery,
Step forth and save him from his loneliness,
My Marcomir, his friend. This is the moment;
And, as you love him, speak.