SCENE II.. An Apartment in the Castle

Enter as from the Marriage, ОTHO, LU-
DOLPH, AURANTHE, CONRAD, Nobles,
Knights, Ladies, etc. Music.

Otho. Now Ludolph! Now, Auranthe!
Daughter fair!

What can I find to grace your nuptial day

More than my love, and these wide realms in fee?

Ludolph. I have too much.
Auranthe.

And I, my liege, by far. Ludolph. Auranthe! I have! O, my bride, my love!

Not all the gaze upon us can restrain

My eyes, too long poor exiles from thy

face,

From adoration, and my foolish tongue
From uttering soft responses to the love
I see in thy mute beauty beaming forth! 10
Fair creature, bless me with a single word!
All mine!

Auranthe. Spare, spare me, my Lord; I swoon else.

Ludolph. Soft beauty! by to-morrow I should die, Wert thou not mine.

[They talk apart.

My Arab,- no soft music should enrich The cool wine, kiss'd off with a soldier's smack;

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