You now are in the room. Stand in your place.

While I make ready. (To Pal.) Let me wrap this cloth

About thy face. Lie ever still, and speak not.

(To Rosso.) Your eyes, sir, are at liberty.

ROSSO (unbandaging).

Coming hither,

I thought ’twould make a pretty poem to tell

Of one, whose cruel mistress ne’er allowed

The meanest favour, till he dreamed one night

That he was blind, and she, in pity of him,