The scene changes to _Elvira's_ apartment in the castle. It is night. She is meditating upon _Ernani_. When she thinks of _Silva_, "the frozen, withered spectre," and contrasts with him _Ernani_, who "in her heart ever reigneth," she voices her thoughts in that famous air for sopranos, one of Verdi's loveliest inspirations, "Ernani! involami" (Ernani! fly with me).

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