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!

Hilarion: No word of thine -- no stern command
Can teach my heart to rove,
Then rather perish by thy hand,
Than live without they love!
A loveless life apart from thee
Were hopeless slavery,
Were hopeless slavery,
If kindly death will set me free,