Then we wake and dream no more. [Exit.

[The King evinces strong emotions during the song, and at the conclusion starts up.

Fusbos. What ails my liege? ah! why that look so sad?

King [coming forward.] I am in love! I scorch, I freeze, I'm mad!

Oh, tell me, Fusbos, first and best of friends,

You, who have wisdom at your fingers' ends,

Shall it be so, or shall it not be so?

Shall I my Griskinissa's charms forego,

Compel her to give up the regal chair,