Against my sire now I pray God: I pray

Our men be driven back: yet not too soon.

Ferdinand! Ferdinand! Heaven grant there’s none

To hear but he: and he will never hear me

Calling so fearfully, so faintly.... Alas!

Better to seek him. Since he is not within,

He must be in this garden. He will have sought

Some shelter from the night.—Ah! the arbour ...

there.... [Goes to arbour.

Why, here. Wake, Ferdinand, wake! Come, ’tis I,