G. J.
First Citizen;
In two places at once! That s quite impossible!
(He laughs, and others laugh with him.)
Second Maiden
No,don’t laugh, it’s true,my mother told me so!
Firstdaiden
And Fatherliarco told it me!
Rosina
To Bennozzo)
Well if that all you've seen--
Bennozzo
And all about the walls, quite near, no further
Than we stroll at eventide
There lie they by the thousand on the ground,
And more draw near on field and hilltop,
And it seems as if each had a place assigned;
So each host is ranged in order and all is quiet
No noise reached us. What is all this?
März
10.
They are alive as we are, and are so near--
What is it that they all are silent,
And tneir steps noiseless?
( Astronishment. Whisporings.)
First Citizen
(Explaining.
The reason is that they are much further away than you think.
The kwilight deceives your eyes. Curious image in the air are
told of,and there are evenings where one sees things which are
thousands of miles away. Who knows,but that the whole army,which
Bennazzo thinks he saw, is not resting in the fields which are
nearer to Rome than to Bologna.
Third Citizen
What do you mean by that? Images in the air? That would indeed
be wonderful!
Basini
Why think of miracle, when the thing can be explained in the
simplest way?
Several
How then? How?