Were speaking here. But this I took to be

Hallucination, spirit mockery,

And mourned that thus my soul could be deceived:

This thought alone kept me from breaking down.

Take not away my right thus to believe,

The only prop I lean on; tell me not

My fevered dreaming was good fortune; else

I shall be lost indeed.

Benedictus:

I shall be lost indeed. A man can lose