Eu. Well done!

[Shouts increase.

Ch. How the people tarry!

I can't be silent; I must speak: or sing—

How natural to sing now!

Eu. Hush and pray!

We are to die; but even I perceive

'T is not a very hard thing so to die.

My cousin of the pale-blue tearful eyes,

Poor Cesca, suffers more from one day's life