Thou art - a person of discretion; always

I am glad to commune with thee; and if aught

At any time disturbs me, I endure not

To keep it from thee; and, truth to tell, thy mead

And velvet ale today have so untied

My tongue...Farewell then, prince.

SHUISKY. Brother, farewell.

Farewell, my brother, till we meet again.

(He escorts PUSHKIN out.) PALACE OF THE TSAR.

The TSAREVICH is drawing a map. The TSAREVNA. The NURSE of the Tsarevna KSENIA. (Kisses a portrait.) My dear bridegroom, comely

son of a king, not to me wast thou given, not to thy

affianced bride, but to a dark sepulchre in a strange

land; never shall I take comfort, ever shall I weep for

thee.

NURSE. Eh, tsarevna! A maiden weeps as the dew falls;

the sun will rise, will dry the dew. Thou wilt have

another bridegroom - and handsome and affable. My

charming child, thou wilt learn to love him, thou wilt

forget Ivan the king's son.

KSENIA. Nay, nurse, I will be true to him even in death.

(Boris enters.) TSAR. What, Ksenia? What, my sweet one? In thy girlhood

Already a woe-stricken widow, ever

Bewailing thy dead bridegroom! Fate forbade me

To be the author of thy bliss. Perchance

I angered Heaven; it was not mine to compass

Thy happiness. Innocent one, for what

Art thou a sufferer? And thou, my son,

With what art thou employed? What's this?

FEODOR. A chart

Of all the land of Muscovy; our tsardom

From end to end. Here you see; there is Moscow,

There Novgorod, there Astrakhan. Here lies

The sea, here the dense forest tract of Perm,

And here Siberia.