Why now you frown again! Oh, Zeolide,
This willfulness is insupportable!
Zeo. (enraged). Support it then no longer, Philamir!
There—you are free—our bond is at an end;
Choose your path, I’ll choose mine. Our roads diverge.
We part and may not meet again. Farewell!
(Changing her manner) Oh, Philamir, heed not my words, I spoke
In reckless haste—I spoke my death-warrant!
Philamir, do not leave me, let me live;
See how I love you! I am at your feet—