GUIDO It is a preposterous feature of Duke Alessandro's character that he is always making songs about some beautiful thing or another.
GRACIOSA Such strange songs, Guido! I was singing over one of them just before you came,—
Let me have dames and damsels richly clad
To feed and tend my mirth,
Singing by day and night to make me glad—
But I could not quite understand it. Are his songs thought good?
GUIDO
The songs of a reigning duke are always good.
GRACIOSA
And is he as handsome as people report?
GUIDO
Tastes differ, of course—
GRACIOSA
And is he—?
GUIDO
I have a portrait of the Duke. It does not, I think, unduly flatter him.
Will you look at it?
GRACIOSA
Yes, yes!