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SCENE II.

A Romantic View.
Enter Cora and Alonzo much agitated—he endeavours to console her, but cannot erase the recollection of her mother's vision.
JUAN ENTERS hastily.
RECITATIVE—JUAN.
Xaira, the priest, hies hither thro' the glade,
Alonzo! fly! or Cora is betray'd!

Alonzo, kissing Cora's hand, precipitately quits her at the approach of Xaira and the High Priest, to whom Cora tremblingly bows.
RECITATIVE—HIGH PRIEST.
Cora! our trouble's o'er! 'tis you we seek,
The only wanderer of our temple's wreck.

Cora, occasionally looking after Alonzo, endeavours to extricate herself from the hands of the priests, in which exertion she loses her bracelet, but is hurried off.
Enter STANDARD-BEARER and DIEGO.
RECITATIVE—STANDARD-BEARER.
Oh! what a plague is love, and this love-making,
Poor Rolla! see! is in a piteous taking!
Sometimes a ghastly smile!—sometimes he's sad!
Sometimes he's moping—now he's raving mad!

Exeunt.
Enter Rolla wildly, discovers the bracelet— Alonzo's voice is heard singing the following couplet:
Oh, Cora! thy absence embitters love's strain,
Distraction reigns here 'till I view thee again.

Rolla listens with profound attention to the exclamation, and makes his EXIT in a paroxysm of uncertainty and despair.