My heart, hideous and beating, or tear up

My vitals for your gaze, ere you will deem

Enough made known? You! who are you, forsooth?

That is the crowning operation claimed

By the arch-demonstrator—heaven the hall,

And earth the audience. Let Aprile and you

Secure good places: 't will be worth the while.

Fest. Are you mad, Aureole? What can I have said

To call for this? I judged from your own words.

Par. Oh, doubtless! A sick wretch describes the ape