THE SCORPION
RINALDO. The cloud blackens all the sky.
Laylahl
[He takes the 5607191011/70171 his helmet.
Keep this token of me.
LAYLAH. For a token of hate and of revenge!
RINALDO. As you will.
But the Crusades are endedl
[He draws her to the well, and lays her down.
With her
arms on the 1070 wall, and her face hidden, she 5005.
RINALDO talees his gia/frey, and, with one glance over
his shonlder towards the
enemy
and another to
LAYLAH, rides of, driving the 5151175 into his horse.
LAYLAH remains sobbing.
After 0 long interval she
half-rises, and stretching her arms after him, 60115
broken/y."
LAYLAH. Come back!
.
.
. Come back!
.
.
.
[5065 again take her
more violent/y than
ever.
She
struggles to herfeet, holds out the seorþz'on crest and
calls :]
Come back!
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. Come backl
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Dead silence.
After a little the distant
gallofiing of horses is heard. It grows loader and
loader.
LAYLAH rises, mistress of herself, kisses the
golden seorpion and hides it at her heart, and refills
thefliteher.
[Enter a 00114 of Saracens, who dismount.
Their leader,
the EMIR SAID OMAR, rashesforward to the wells
SAID OMAR. Victory! we have chased the infidels three
days, and the vultures of the desert are gorged, and the jackals
burst with fatness.
My gazelle, didst thou languish for
me?
My rose, my tulip, my anemone, slim palm of the
oasis, sweet water of the well!
We shall feast to-night,
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