[33]:
I wished the ball might be kept perpetually in our cloyster, and that half the handsome nuns in it might be turned to men, for the sake of the other.
[34]:
This night, this happy night is yours and mine.
Et tout à côté on rencontre des allusions politiques. Cela peint temps. Par exemple, Torrismond dit pour s'excuser d'épouser la reine:
Power which in one age is tyranny
Is ripen'd in the next to succession.
She's in possession.
[35]:
For Kings and Priest are in a manner bound
For reverence sake, to be close hypocrites.
[36]:
Fate is what I
By virtue of omnipotence have made it.
And Power omnipotent can do no wrong.
Not to myself, because I will it so;
Not yet to men, for what they are is mine.
This night I will enjoy Amphytrion's wife:
For when I made her, I decreed her such
As I shou'd please to love.