Of my simplicity!—for here 's a sage

Knows the world well, is not to be deceived,

And his experience and his Macchiavels,

D'Ormeas, teach him—what?—that I this while

Have envied him his crown! He has not smiled,

I warrant,—has not eaten, drunk, nor slept,

For I was plotting with my Princess yonder!

Who knows what we might do or might not do?

Go now, be politic, astound the world!

That sentry in the antechamber—nay,