Ser. If I am forced to hear you then, Alvaro,

You shall hear me too, once more, once for all,

Freely confessing that I loved you once;

Ay, long and truly loved you. When all hope

Of being yours with your reported death

Had died, then, yielding to my father’s wish,

I wed another, and am—what I am.

So help me Heaven, Alvaro, this is all!

Alv. How can I answer if you weep?

Ser. No, no,