CAPO.
Your majesty
Allures me. Is your daughter—
ALTOUM
Hush! Come closer.
[He leads Capocomico away from the curtain, right. Calaf follows furtively, heedless of Barak’s gestures]
My daughter is my cause of desperation.
In all but her I have been fortunate:
In peace, most prosperous; in war, my worst
Of rivals, Timur, king of Astrakhan—