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