Scene + 

III + 

Callimachus + 

Drusiana, listen to me! Drusiana, my deepest heart’s love! + 

Drusiana + 

Your words amaze me, Callimachus. What can you want of me? + 

Callimachus + 

You are amazed? + 

Drusiana + 

I am astounded. + 

Callimachus + 

First I want to speak of love! + 

Drusiana + 

Love! What love? + 

Callimachus + 

That love with which I love you above all created things. + 

Drusiana + 

Why should you love me? You are not of my kin. There is no legal bond between us. + 

Callimachus + 

It is your beauty. + 

Drusiana + 

My beauty? + 

Callimachus + 

Yes. + 

Drusiana + 

What is my beauty to you? + 

Callimachus + 

But little now⁠—it is that which tortures me⁠—but I hope that it may be much before long. + 

Drusiana + 

Not a word more. Leave me at once, for it is a sin to listen to you now that I understand your devilish meaning. + 

Callimachus + 

My Drusiana, do not kill me with your looks. Do not drive away one who worships you, but give back love for love. + 

Drusiana + 

Wicked, insidious words! They fall on deaf ears. Your love disgusts me. Understand I despise you! + 

Callimachus + 

You cannot make me angry, because I know that you would own my passion moves you if you were not ashamed. + 

Drusiana + 

It moves me to indignation, nothing else. + 

Callimachus + 

That feeling will not last. + 

Drusiana + 

I shall not change, be sure of that. + 

Callimachus + 

I would not be too sure. + 

Drusiana + 

You frantic, foolish man! Do not deceive yourself! Why delude yourself with vain hopes? What madness leads you to think that I shall yield? I have renounced even what is lawful⁠—my husband’s bed! + 

Callimachus + 

I call heaven and earth to witness that if you do not yield I will never rest from the fight for you. I will be as cunning as the serpent. I will use all my skill and strength to trap you. + 