Turandot out Turandot's command: "Cosi comanda Turandot" – "This night, none shall sleep in Peking! The penalty for all will be death if the Prince's name is not discovered by morning". The Prince waits for dawn and anticipates his victory: "Nessun dorma" – "Nobody shall sleep!" Ping, Pong, and Pang appear and offer the Prince women and riches if he will only give up Turandot ("Tu che guardi le stelle"), but he refuses. A group of soldiers then drag in Timur and Liù. They have been seen speaking to the Prince, so they must know his name. Turandot enters and orders
Shall and will Shall and will Shall and will are two of the English modal verbs. They have various uses, including the expression of propositions about the future, in what is usually referred to as the future tense of English. The traditional prescriptive grammar rule stated that, when expressing pure futurity (without any additional meaning such as desire or command), "shall" was to be used when the subject was in the first person ("I" or "we"), and "will" in other cases. In practice this rule is commonly not adhered to by any group of English speakers, and many speakers do not differentiate between