Scene.-Up the Hillside, inside the Shrub-house. Luca's wife, Ottima, and her paramour, the German Sebald.
Sebald [sings].
Let the watching lids wink!
Day's ablaze with eyes, think!
Deep into the night, drink!
Ottima. Night? Such may be your Rhineland nights, perhaps;
But this blood-red beam through the shutter's chink5
-We call
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