To front with any visage but despair.

Ev’n that one single solace, were there one,

Of ringing my despair into her ears,

Fails me. Time presses; the accursed breeze

Blows foully fair. The vessel flaps her sails

That is to bear her from me. Look, she comes—

And from before her dawning beauty all

I had to say fades from my swimming brain,

And chokes upon my tongue.

Enter Serafina, drest as at first, and Porcia.