Fel. What is ’t now?

Your heart seems labouring.

Ces. Yours must lighten it.

You know, Don Felix, how by blood and birth

I am a gentleman—not less, I trust,

In breeding and attainment; my estate

Sufficient for my birth—nurst by the Prince

In his own palace from my earliest years,

Until, howe’er unworthy of such honour,

Received into his inmost heart and council: