14.
the stage grows lighter. Paola stands looking at
the picture. Lionardo rolls over to where she is
standing near him andnees the hem of her garment.
PAOLA (STARTS &LIGHTLY)
Are you still here? Have you not left the house?
LIONARDO
No love, I lingered here before your door.
PAOLA
Then hurry now.
LIONARDO
genius, fame
While still the fragrance of your kisses olings
About my hair? I gr judge the balmy wind
Ofurjealous night the power to bear it off.
PAOLA
"Twas little wise: some servant might awake
And mark your going. See, the down is pray.
LIONARDO
Then Paola, I'll wait days coming here.
And etch the light’s first flow upon my work.
PAOLA
Ah, spare your toil! why do you arrive in Yain?
Yes if you were a pupil of passano"4,
Franco's or Andrea Galbi's even--
I then perhaps oould understand your seal
But here where genus blases on the walls
How do you dare to die the fatile brush?
How comes it that you do not each new morn
Destroy the labor of the day before, kidden deep