Fellow, rise!

[Calaf staggers to his feet]

Your most high princess graciously bestows

This alms—a ring, in token of her love

To all the world.

[Taking it, Calaf falls again to the ground. Barak comes to him.

Capocomico watches, and beckons, twinkling, to the Maskers]

Now heaven witness this:—

He also swoons. My playboys, catch your cue.

Who said Romance is buried? Here is China