Duchess What! With your hot kisses fresh upon my lips Forget the vows of love you made to me? Guido Guido I take them back. Duchess Duchess Alas, you cannot, Guido, For they are part of nature now; the air Is tremulous with their music, and outside The little birds sing sweeter for those vows. Guido Guido There lies a barrier between us now, Which then I knew not, or I had forgot. Duchess Duchess There is no barrier, Guido; why, I will go In poor attire, and will follow you Over the world. Guido [wildly] Guido The world’s not wide enough To hold us two! Farewell, farewell for ever. Duchess [calm, and controlling her passion] Duchess Why did you come into my life at all, then, Or in the desolate garden of my heart Sow that white flower of love—?
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