I feel like a new-pardoned prisoner

Tasting the air. Smile, sweet! Those lily lids

Shall droop no more with woe I lay upon them.

[Enter Methone with robes]

Now, now, Methone, make me young again.

O, not that robe! Tis for a grandame that.

My sky-gray mantle with its falling softness

Broidered like sunset clouds!

[Exit Methone]

The. I beg you, sweet——