Yes, Your Majesty.
EMPEROR
Until to-day I had seen but the nests of ordinary birds, and I did not believe in that incomparable bird the Phoenix. It is only to-day that its existence was disclosed to me by the evidence of my enchanted eyes. [He hangs the jewel on his belt.]
EMPRESS
Alas, the phoenix and the dragon are dragged down by chains to-day, and cannot reach the heights to which they aspire in the clouds.
EMPEROR
Ah, how ardently I wish I were the Tartar Emperor reigning at Peking!
EMPRESS
What a strange and dismal idea! You wish you were my mortal enemy? Why?
EMPEROR