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Show PROGRAMMES OF BALLETS. 429 ACT IV. The theatre represents an armoury in the castle of Fanes. ERMANGERE is discovered seated near a table, and appears to be pondering on her destiny. Fanes enters hastily, and his agitation is a new source of alarm to the unfortunate wife of Alphonso. She interrogates, and earnestly presses him to answer her questions. H e at length acquaints her that the King has again taken the Moorish woman to his arms ; that he has placed her on the throne, and once more become her vassal-the slave of her caprice. H e adds, that he himself is banished, and that Garcias is groaning in fetters ; that the people, however, enraged at this sudden revolution in the King's sentiments, have again risen; and, led by several high-spirited Castilians, have determined on putting an end to the odious tyranny of the Moorish concubine. This last intelligence inspires Ermangere with hope, and her depressed spirits become a little elevated ; Fanes now acquaints her that her valiant friends will soon appear at his castle, in order to make the necessary arrangements for marching against those enemies which the state fosters in its bosom-the Moorish followers and friends of Zara. Arms of different descriptions are brought in and arranged in fasceaux; soon after the discontented troop and their noble leaders arrive. Some of them are disguised as peasants, others as pilgrims, and the remainder, in order more effectually to deceive their enemies, have assumed the costume of the Moors. They all seem anxi- |