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Do not evade me now, For great it is my grief, But one word more, then go! Let me ask, and answer give: When this heart strong comfort needs, Will it Senta be who for me pleads? Wie? zweifelst Du an meinem Herzen? Du zweifelst, ob ich gut Dir bin? Doch sag’, was weckt Dir solche Schmerzen? Was trübt mit Argwohn Deinen Sinn?
Erik pleads again with Senta, and the “Flying Dutchman” appears on the scene, and orders his crew to prepare for immediate departure, thinking Senta had proven as faithless and inconstant in the love she had vowed him, as the rest of womankind he had come in contact with.
When then my heart strong comfort needs Say, Senta, say, who for me pleads? O schweige jetzt, Erik! Lass mich hinaus, Den Vater zu begrüssen! Wenn nicht, wie sonst, an Bord die Tochter kommt, Wird er nicht zürnen müssen? Why discuss this question now? let me go To welcome home the father. If not on board his daughter he does see, Quite angry he will be. Du willst mich fliehn? Why thus evade me?
During the confusion which ensues upon this avowal, the father’s arrival is announced. In the time intervening between this announcement and Daland’s arrival, Erik, Senta’s lover, pleads for his love, and endeavors to persuade Senta that her infatuation for a phantom lover will lead to her irretrievable ruin; but to no avail. Daland arrives and presents the “Flying Dutchman” to his daughter.