Scene III.—A Room in the Palace.

The Prince and Don Felix, discovered at the back of the stage.

Fel. Why is your Highness sad?

Prince. Not sad, Don Felix:

Oh would it were some certain shape of sorrow

That I might grapple with, not a vague host

Of undefined emotions! Oh how oft

The patching up of but a single seam

Opens a hundred others! Lucky he,

Who can to disenchantment bare his eyes