With all this babble, mummery, and glare,

For I am growing dangerous—Air! room! air!—

[He rushes in. Music ceases.

Oh but to save the reeling brain from wreck

With its bewilder’d senses!—

[He covers his eyes for a while.

What! Ev’n now

That Babel left behind me, but my eyes

Pursued by the same glamour, that—unless

Alike bewitch’d too—the confederate sense