The valiant Count of Valderey;

He lit upon the broider’d slipper...

How it chanc’d I cannot say.

To the chamber of the Countess

Goes he... Will he strike the blow?

Serenely sleeping doth he see her:

—‘Jesus! I know not what to do.’

In disorder is the household...

—‘God have me in his holy keep!

Either witch must be this woman,