Melissa: And now he lets her go! Again she's in his grasp— Psyche: And now she's not, He seizes her back hair! Blanche: (Not looking) And it comes off! Psyche: No, no! She's saved!—she's saved! she's saved!—she's saved! FINALE, ACT II (Princess, Hildebrand, Melissa, Lady Psyche, Blanche, Cyril, Hilarion, Florian, Arac, Guron, Scynthius and Chorus of Girls and Men ) "Oh Joy! our Chief is Sav'd" Girls: Oh joy! our chief is sav'd And by Hillarion's hand; The torrent fierce he brav'd, And brought her safe to land! For his intrusion we must own This doughty deed may well atone! Princess: Stand forth ye three, Who-e'er ye be, And hearken to our stern decree! Cyril, & Florian: Have mercy, O Lady Hilarion: Have disregard your Mer— oaths! cy! Princess: I know no mercy, men in women's clothes! The man whose sacrilegious eyes Invade our strict seclusion, dies. Arrest the coarse intruding spies! (They are arrested by the "Daughters of the Plough") Girls: Have mercy, O lady — disregard your oaths. Princess: I know not mercy, men in women's clothes! (Cyril & Florian are bound) SONG — Hilarion Hilarion: Whom thou has chain'd must wear his chain, Thou canst not set him free, He wrestles with his bonds in vain Who lives by loving thee! If heart of stone for heart of fire, Be all thou hast to give, If dead to my heart's desire, Why should I wish to live? Cyr & Flo: Have Girls: Have mercy, O Mer- lady! cy!