DON JUAN. - Dearest Leporello!

What bliss! - "To-morrow, in the evening, later"....

My Leporello, yes, to-morrow!... So

Prepare... I'm happy as a child!

LEPORELLO. - So you

Conversed with Dona Anna? Maybe she

Addressed to you a gracious word or two,

Or you bestowed on her your blessing.

DON JUAN. - NO,

My Leporello, no! An assignation,

An assignation has she granted me!

LEPORELLO. Can it be so? O widows, you are all

The same.

DON JUAN. Oh, what a happy man am I!

I'm ready to embrace the world - or sing!

LEPORELLO. And what will the commander have to say

About all this?

DON JUAN. You think he will be jealous?

No, truly; he's a man of common sense.

And surely has grown meeker since he died.

LEPORELLO. No, see his statue there.

DON JUAN. - Well, what?

LEPORELLO. - It seems

As though it's looking at you angrily.

DON JUAN. My Leporello, here's a notion: go

And bid it come to-morrow to my house -

No, not to mine - I mean to Dona Anna's.

LEPORELLO. Invite the statue! Why?

DON JUAN. - Well, certainly,

Not for the purpose of conversing with it.

But bid the statue come to Dona Anna's

To-morrow evening rather late and stand

On guard before the door.

LEPORELLO. - Here's an odd way

To jest! And jest with whom!