Man hath no appetite for proffered love!

Away from me, I go to that good world

Where women are not devils till they die!

[Throws off Selene, who falls senseless. He leaps through cloud, and descends. As Ethais disappears, the fairies, who have grouped themselves about the stage in attitudes of despair, gradually seem to wake as from a dream.]

Sel. Where am I? Zayda! Neodie! Darine!

Oh, sisters, I am waking from a dream—

A fearful dream—a dream of evil thoughts,

Of mortal passion and of mortal hate,

I thought that Ethais and Phyllon too

Had gone to mid-earth—