Noble by birth, of one of the first houses
In Saxony.
Sieg.I talk not of his birth,
But of his bearing. Men speak lightly of him.
Ulr. So they will do of most men. Even the monarch
Is not fenced from his chamberlain's slander, or
The sneer of the last courtier whom he has made
Great and ungrateful.
Sieg.If I must be plain,
The world speaks more than lightly of this Rodolph:300