Prin. Leon. Prin. Leon. Must charm the hearer; sweetly do they celebrate Her delicate foot has trod, a very nightingale Thy name also! A happy ambiguity for him; And I am well content that he must thus Remember me in such sweet moments. Is not a common love, whose only aim This All other worshippers from the chosen shrine. How say'st thou ? The scholar of Plato cannot understand Prin. A mischievous, spoiled child. A manly youth, Husband to Psyche, counsellor to the gods! No longer skips he with unseemly haste From heart to heart. With mien and mind sedate Alph. Prin. Alph. Leon. SCENE II. The former persons and ALPHONSO. Is't possible that here I seek in vain. For Tasso? Where, fair ladies, is the poet? He retains then If I mistake not Alph. Prin. Alph. And making such corrections as he deems When he has polished it to perfect symmetry, So valuable in his eyes. Most welcome Shall he be when he brings it, and left free He strives, Like a true poet, to give fit expression To the rich breathings of his favorite Muse. To gratify them some poor moments. So let it be as it has ever been; Dearest, Thy mildness checks my too great eagerness, Leon. Alph. And I give impulse to thy gentle wishes. Known to our fatherland and to the world. "Tis time that he should feel new influences: The solitude he loves has cradled him Too softly. Praise and blame he should encounter, Will learn to use his utmost strength. 'Tis then Thou wilt protect him in this novel scene, In the resorts of busy men, seeks shape And aliment. His natural mistrust Towards his fellow-men might but too probably He only Fears men who knows them not- and he who shuns Prin. Their converse soon misunderstands them. Is Tasso's case, and thus, little by little, This The freest mind becomes confused and fettered. A letter lost, a servant who could leave him To mark some bad design—some black conspiracy Ah! let us never Alph. Prin. Alph. Prin. Forget, my brother, that each man is born Marks of peculiar favor. All his troubles I carefully inquire into; as lately When he believed his chambers had been entered With some wrong purpose. Nothing was discovered, And then I calmly told him what I thought, Well! as for other matters, I this night Returned to-day from Rome, and I must therefore And will be with us some few moments hence. But why cannot you manage such affairs |