Part 105 (1/2)

'Tis a rapture supreme, Whatever one thinks, To drink to one's love, And to love what one drinks!

PHOEBUS

Friends, the prettiest of all, A grace divine, Oh, wonder, ecstasy!

Friends, she is mine!

CLAUDE FROLLO (_aside_)

I bind myself to hell; Misfortune on you dwell!

PHOEBUS

Pleasure awaits us; Exhaust without remorse The better part of life, Love's precious intercourse!

What ive a century for an hour, Eternity for a day

[_The curfew rings; the friends of Phoebus arise from the table, replace their swords, their caps, their cloaks, and prepare to depart_

CHORUS

Phoebus, the hour is come; It is the curfew-bell: Hurry to your beloved; God's blessing on you dwell!

PHOEBUS

At last the hour is come; It is the curfew-bell

I go toon her dwell!

[_The friends of Phoebus go out_

SCENE II

_Claude Frollo, Phoebus Claude Frollo stops Phoebus as he is about to go out_

CLAUDE FROLLO

Captain!

PHOEBUS

Who is this man?

CLAUDE FROLLO

Listen to me?

PHOEBUS

Make haste!

CLAUDE FROLLO

Do you know the naht?