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Andrea
find you over ready!
Filippo
hy do you hesitate?
You know I am
oresworn, I broke my word.
Andrea
Yes, yes! I know –
Filippo
But not the reason for my breach of faith.
Andrea
I'm here that you may set that reason forth.
Filippo
Then listen, though the greed ofchengeance flame
To fiercer heat, while lingering by your
Dear, dying Mother's bed, your sisteranched
with anxious care her parent’s labored breath
There I to her,to whom I owed twofold
Devotion, as my 'bride affianced, and
The sister of my friend – Andrea – yours
Yet to her, Teresina, with hot laps
I pound into her ear, words, mad and wild
As one might hear pour from a bar maid’s laps.
When finally she understood, she gave
Me such a look, that I went forth in rage,
For it was not remorse, by anger bred of
Balked desire which drove me thence
Outside the city, where young maids and men
Were dancing — and the game were held. I sped away
Johned madly aye! In their Lavela, and now you see me
like the wraith of one, who wandered far
During a hundred years, in Fairyland. --
A realm12n’chanted, where all earthly love,
Was filched from him, and all commonworth
To men donied him — Thus am I with naught left
Of what I was.
Andrea
Know you nothing more? Then I know more than thou-
ne only well knows his own misery.
Teresina is stricken dumb, from a nervous shock.