May drive into undoing my whole speech,

Undoing, on his birthday,—what is worse,—

My son and heir!

I wonder, all the same,

Not so much at those peasants' lack of heart;

But—Guido Franceschini, nobleman,

Bear pain no better! Everybody knows

It used once, when my father was a boy,

To form a proper, nay, important point

I' the education of our well-born youth,