ROSAURA. None.
CLOTALDO. Think of other means whereby . . . .
ROSAURA. Other means would seal my fate.
[Exit.
CLOTALDO. If 'tis so, then, daughter, wait,
For together we shall die.
[Exit.
* * * * *
SCENE IX.
THE OPEN PLAIN.
SIGISMUND, clothed in skins: Soldiers marching. CLARIN.
[Drums are heard.]
SIGISMUND. If Rome could see me on this day
Amid the triumphs of its early sway,
Oh, with what strange delight
It would have seen so singular a sight,
Its mighty armies led
By one who was a savage wild beast bred,
Whose courage soars so high,
That even an easy conquest seems the sky!
But let us lower our flight,
My spirit; 'tis not thus we should invite
This doubtful dream to stay,
Lest when I wake and it has past away,
I learn to my sad cost,
A moment given, 'twas in a moment lost;
Determined not to abuse it,
The less will be my sorrow should I lose it.
[A trumpet sounds.