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[A room at Lagoverde, The next day. Beatrice alone.]
BEA. In sooth, I do not feel the earth so firm / Under my feet as yesterday it was. / All that I loved are gone to a far land, / And left me here alone, save for two children / And twenty thousand enemies, and the thing / Of horror that's in store for me. Almost / I feel my feet uprooted from the earth, / There's such a tugging at me to be gone. / Save for your children, [Looking off stage towards Bianca's room.] / 'twould be simple enough / To lay me down beside you in your bed, / And call on Death, who is not yet out of hearing, / To take me, too. [Enter Fidelio.]