I love their fine prismatic cadences.
Yet these Venetian colours to my taste
Are over-saturate: I’d have them cast
With the Doge’s ring in the sea. A good year’s soaking
Would bring them down into that faded softness,
Which is a banquet to the cultured eye.
D. Ricardo, do you attend Sir Gregory,
And see your lodging. Come, St. Nicholas;
Come, Laura! [Exit with Laura and St. Nicholas. Flora following.
G. (to R.). I wait upon you, if it please you