Chapter XII: Act III

SCENE 1.--_A Hall of armory, with an altar at the back of the stage. Soft music from an instrument of glass or steel. VALDEZ, ORDONIO, and ALVAR in a Sorcerer's robe, are discovered._

_Ord._ This was too melancholy, father.

_Val._ Nay,
My Alvar lov'd sad music from a child.
Once he was lost; and after weary search
We found him in an open place in [of _Osor._] the wood,
To which spot he had followed a blind boy,
Who breath'd into a pipe of sycamore
Some strangely-moving notes: and these, he said,
Were taught him in a dream. Him we first saw
Stretch'd on the broad top of a sunny heath-bank;
And lower down poor Alvar, fast asleep,
His head upon the blind boy's dog. It pleas'd me
To mark how he had fasten'd round the pipe
A silver toy his {grandmother had _Osor._
{grandam had late given him.
Methinks I see him now as he then look'd--
{ His infant dress was grown too short for him, _Osor._
{ Even so!--He had outgrown his infant dress,
Yet still he wore it.

_Alv. (aside)._ My tears must not flow!
I must not clasp his knees, and cry, My father!

_Enter TERESA and attendants._

Remorse.

[These lines with the variants as noted above are included in Osorio,