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HERMIT.

Question me not, my son; there is good cause:

'T is meet that he should go.

ROVANI.

Forgive me, Father!

That solemn voice and sorrowing eye too well
Asserts there is a cause,—a fearful cause.
I will obey thee. (Going, but returns again.)
Is there aught further thou would'st have me do?

HERMIT.

He will, perhaps, desire to see his lady;

But till he be prepared to leave the castle,
And take his last farewell, methinks 't were better
They should not meet.

ROVANI.

I understand you, Father.

[Exeunt severally.