So while the world her wonted journey keeps,

Lazarus chuckles while poor Dives weeps.

Enter Cesar.

Ces. Lazaro, I waited till the Prince was gone.

Listen to me. Don Felix has betroth’d

His sister to another, not to me;

He will not tell me whom, nor does it matter:

All ill alike. But out of this despair

I’ll pluck the crown that hope could never reach.

There is no time to lose; this very night