BASILIUS. So much wisdom makes one wonder.
ASTOLFO. What a change in his condition!
ROSAURA. How discreet! how calm! how prudent!
SIGISMUND. Why this wonder, these surprises,
If my teacher was a dream,
And amid my new aspirings
I am fearful I may wake,
And once more a prisoner find me
In my cell? But should I not,
Even to dream it is sufficient:
For I thus have come to know
That at last all human blisses
Pass and vanish as a dream,
And the time that may be given me
I henceforth would turn to gain:
Asking for our faults forgiveness,
Since to generous, noble hearts
It is natural to forgive them.
End of Project Gutenberg's Life Is A Dream, by Pedro Calderon de la Barca