Love and Intrigue (Act 3 Scene 3) lyrics

The PRESIDENT and WORM.

WORM
The music-master and his wife have been arrested without the least disturbance. Will your excellency read this letter?

PRESIDENT
(having read it) Excellent! Excellent, my dear secretary! poison like this would convert health itself into jaundiced leprosy. The marshal, too, has taken the bait. Now then away with my proposals to the father, and then lose no time—with the daughter.

                                                 [Exeunt on different sides.]