Hilarion: No word of thine — no stern command Can teach my heart to rove, Then rather perish by thy hand, Than live without thy love! A loveless life apart from thee Were hopeless slavery, Were hopeless slavery, If kindly death will set me free, Why should I fear to die? Girls: Have mercy! Hilarion: If kindly death Girls: Have mercy! Hilarion: will set me free, If kindly death will set me free, Why should I fear, Why should I fear to die? (He is bound by two of the attendants, the three gentlemen are marched off.) (Enter Melissa) Melissa: Madam, without the castle walls An armed band Demand admittance to our halls For Hildebrand! All: Oh, horror! Princess: Defy them! We will defy them! All: Too late — too late! The castle gate Is battered by them! (The gate yields. Soldiers rush in. Arac, Guron, and Scynthius are with them, but with their hands handcuffed. Men: Walls and fences scaling, Promptly we appear; Walls are unavailing, We have enter'd here. Female exaceration. Stifle if you're wise. Stop your lamentations, Dry your pretty, pretty Girls: Rend the air with wailing. Men: eyes! Shed the shameful tear! Man has enter'd here. Walls are unavailing.