made smooth and hard to fight the battle of love?

HASSAN
Are not your lips love's roses, your cheeks love's lilies,
your eyes love's hyacinths?

YASMIN
Ya, Hassan, and my hair the net of love, and my girdle
the chain of love that breaks at a lovers touch?

HASSAN
I am drowning in a wave of madness. Let me in, Yasmin; let me in!

YASMIN
Ah, if I could!

HASSAN
Why not?

YASMIN
Ah, if I dared!

HASSAN
What do you fear? It is night, and the street is silent.

YASMIN:
Ah, dear Hassan, but I am not alone.

HASSAN
(Whispering) Not alone? Who is there? Your mother?