I've long been an adept in lechery;

But since I saw you first all that has changed:

It seems to me, that I've been born anew!

For, loving you, virtue herself I love -

And humbly, for the first time in my life,

Before her now I bend my trembling knees.

DONA ANNA. Yes, Don Juan is eloquent - I know!

I've heard them say: he is a sly seducer,

A very fiend. How many wretched women

Have you destroyed?

DON JUAN. - Not one of them till now

Was I in love with.

DONA ANNA. - And shall I believe

That Don Juan at last has fallen in love,

That I am not another of his victims!

DON JUAN. If I had wished to dupe you, do you think

I would have thus avowed the truth or uttered

That name that you can hardly bear to hear?

What do you see of trick or craft in that?

DONA ANNA. Who knows your heart? But how could

you come here?

For anyone might recognize you here -

And then your death would be inevitable.

DON JUAN. Ah, what is death? For one sweet moment's

tryst

I'd give my life without a murmur.

DONA ANNA. - How

Will you escape from here, imprudent man?

DON JUAN. (Kissing her hand.) And so you are con-

cerned about the life

Of poor Juan! Then in your heavenly soul

There is not any hatred, Doha Anna?

DONA ANNA. Alas! if only I knew how to hate you!