(Anxiously and with embarrassment.) Kind audience! My specialty on the stage is great and serious tragedy!
THE SPECTATORS.
(Laughing loudly.) Bravo! Bravo!
THE KING.
(With all the force of his soul.) What I have just told you is to me the dearest, the holiest thing that I have kept in the depths of my soul until now!
THE SPECTATORS.
(Give vent to a new storm of approval, from out of which the words can be plainly heard:) A remarkable comedian! An unusual character actor!
THE THEATRE MANAGER.
(Who has mounted a rock back of the crowd in order to hear better.) Finish your monologue, my dear young friend! Or does your poor brain harbor only these few crumbs?——Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses!
THE KING.