At length she rose to go: like the ev’ning star

Went with the ev’ning; which, how short, say love

Who’d spin each golden moment to a year,

Which year would then seem than a moment less.

Ar. Is then, my lord, this passion so deep fixt?

Prince. Nay, but of one day’s growth—

Ar. I come in time then.

My lord, in one word, if you love Don Cesar,

Cease to love Donna Anna.

Prince. Arias,