Amor vincit omnia.”

[He enters the arbour.]

PRIORESS

Joannes, stay indoors and tell your beads.

[To her little hound.]

Jacquette, ma petite, it is a pretty day.

See you those clouds? They are St. Agnes’ sheep;

She hath washed their wool all white and turned ’em loose

To play on heaven’s warm hillside. Smell that rose?

Sweet-sweet! n’est ce pas, ma petite? Hast ever heard