SCENES 

 PROM CALDERON'S NINA DE GOMEZ ARIAS. 



A WOODY LANDSCAPE. 



Enter DOROTHEA and GOMEZ ARIAS an officer in the army of QUEEN ISA- 

 BELLA of CASTILE, in travelling dresses. 



GOMEZ. Here in these green labyrinths, 

 Mountains and romantic forests, 

 Shrouded from the sun himself, 

 Gines, bind our weary steeds ; 

 Whilst, within the lovely bosom, 

 Of this blooming solitude 

 My beloved mistress rests. 



DOROTHEA. Little feels she weariness 

 Who for peace a wanderer flies ; 

 Many are the weary miles 

 Rendered happy by her hopes. 

 And 'tis thus the more she wanders 

 More unwearied she becomes, 

 For the body's worst fatigue 

 Then becomes the mind's repose. 



Enter GINES. 



GINES. Sir, the animals are bound, 

 Moaning all with one accord, 

 Not a slight lament thereat, 

 Asking, sir, in brutish speech 

 Wherefore, as the fools are ours 

 Thus we take and bind them fast ? 



GOMEZ. Perhaps you do already sore repent 

 You did display so rare a resolution ! 



DOROTHEA. O fear it not ! you wrong my truest love ! 

 Not father only and my father's home, 

 Would I have left to follow after thee 

 But, were it all the riches of this world, 

 The bribe to stay would yet seempo or and vain : 

 I might be forced, were I now weak, to feel 

 What to my fame and honour bright I owe, 

 Yet since you pledged to me your word and hand 

 As spouse, and in that trust I place my hope, 

 Of what should I repent ; or why repine ? 

 When that exculpates which my motive was ! 

 First, that my parent threatened to bestow 

 Me on a hateful spouse, against my will ; 

 Next, the confusion of that dreadful night, 

 When in our house your foe discovered you ; 

 And then my fear the blow which for that once 

 Gines had warded off, again would fall ; 

 And that at Cadiz time at length had shown 

 How false were all Granada's jealousies ; 

 When from the maze of all these gathered ills 

 My flight would free me for the time, and free 

 Me, from the mention of that odious spouse, 



