Don Ricardo: Shoot the hawk
If you would keep the dove. The mountaineer
Is a most desperate outlaw.
The King: Let him live.
If I were not so passionately in love
With Doña Sol I would help Hernani
To rescue her from her old guardian.
To think that Don Ruy Gomez should have kept
So beautiful a girl a prisoner,
And tried to marry her! Had Hernani
Eloped with her before I fell in love
I would have praised his courage.
[The balcony window opens, and as the noblemen retire, Doña Sol comes down.
Doña Sol: Hernani!
The King (holding her): Sweet Doña Sol.
Doña Sol: Oh, where is Hernani?
The King: I am the king, King Charles. I worship you,
And I will make you happy.
Doña Sol: Hernani!
Help! Help me, Hernani! [She tries to escape.
The King: I am your king!
I love you, Doña Sol. Come, you shall be
A duchess.