With what a bitter and unnatural effort

They strive to smile!

1st Noble. Is this Vittoria fair?

2d Noble. Of a most noble mien; but yet her beauty

Is wild and awful, and her large dark eye,

In its unsettled glances, hath strange power,

From which thou’lt shrink as I did.

1st Noble. Hush! they come.

Enter Eribert, Vittoria, Constance, and others.

Eri. Welcome, my noble friends!—there must not lower