[147] will] can Edition 1. [148] _Alvar (after a pause)._ Editions 1, 2, 3, 1829. [159] _Thee_ perjur'd, _thee_ a traitress Edition 1. _Thee_ perjur'd, _thee_ a traitress! _Thee_ dishonoured Editions 2, 3, 1829. [161] inarticulate] _inarticulate_ Editions 2, 3, 1829. [162] infant . . . maiden] _Infant . . . Maiden_ Editions 2, 3, 1829. [167-9] barter . . . Death-pang om. Edition 1. [168] which with] with which Editions 2, 3. [174] portrait] Image Edition 1. [After 178] End of the Second Act. Editions 1, 2, 3. ACT III SCENE I _A Hall of Armory, with an Altar at the back of the Stage. Soft Music from an instrument of Glass or Steel._ _VALDEZ, ORDONIO, and ALVAR in a Sorcerer's robe, are discovered._ _Ordonio._ This was too melancholy, Father. _Valdez._ Nay, My Alvar lov'd sad music from a child. Once he was lost; and after weary search We found him in an open place in the wood. To which spot he had followed a blind boy, 5 Who breath'd into a pipe of sycamore Some strangely moving notes: and these, he said, Were taught him in a dream. Him we first saw Stretch'd on the broad top of a sunny heath-bank: And lower down poor Alvar, fast asleep, 10 His head upon the blind boy's dog. It pleas'd me To mark how he had fasten'd round the pipe A silver toy his grandam had late given him. Methinks I see him now as he then look'd-- Even so!--He had outgrown his infant dress, 15 Yet still he wore it. _Alvar (aside)._ My tears must not flow! I must not clasp his knees, and cry, My father! _Enter TERESA and_ Attendants. _Teresa._ Lord Valdez, you have asked my presence here, And I submit; but (Heaven bear witness for me) My heart approves it not! 'tis mockery. 20 _Ordonio._ Believe you then no preternatural influence: Believe you not that spirits throng around us? _Teresa._ Say rather that I have imagined it A possible thing: and it has sooth'd my soul As other fancies have; but ne'er seduced me 25 To traffic with the black and frenzied hope That the dead hear the voice of witch or wizard. [_To ALVAR._ Stranger, I mourn and blush to see you here, On such employment! With far other thoughts I left you. 30 _Ordonio (aside)._ Ha! he has been tampering with her? _Alvar._ O high-soul'd Maiden! and more dear to me Than suits the stranger's name!-- I swear to thee I will uncover all concealéd guilt. Doubt, but decide not! Stand ye from the altar. 35 [_Here a strain of music is heard from behind the scene._