SERVANT. The dancing-girl, and with her the musicians Your grace was pleased to order, wait without. In what angelic yet voluptuous shape The Devil came to tempt Saint Anthony. (Enter PRECIOSA, with a mantle thrown over her head. She advances slowly, in a modest, half-timid attitude.) CARDINAI. (aside). O, what a fair and ministering angel Was lost to heaven when this sweet woman fell! PRECIOSA (kneeling before the ARchbishop). I have obeyed the order of your grace. If I intrude upon your better hours, I proffer this excuse, and here beseech ARCHBISHOP. May God bless thee, And lead thee to a better life. Arise. CARDINAL (aside). Her acts are modest, and her words discreet! I did not look for this! Come hither, child. That is a Gipsy name. PRECIOSA. Thus I am called. CARDINAL. Who is thy father? |