HOFFMAN.

Were it so,
If he makes me love her, may he damn me,
Come!


NICKLAUSSE.

Let us go.

(They go out.)


DAPERTUTTO (alone).

Yes!... to fight you.
The eyes of Giulietta are a sure weapon,
It needed that Schlemil fail,
Faith of captain and soldier,
You'll do like him.
I will that Giulietta shall use sorcery on you.

(Drawing from his finger a ring with a big sparkling diamond.)

Turn, turn, mirror, where the lark is caught,
Sparkle diamond, fascinate, draw her...
The lark or the woman