Who act my father's bidding? Can his love

Pity my grief, and bear this wrong with patience?

Jaq. I strove in vain to enter. Fabian holds him,

By the count's charge, in strictest custody;

And, fearful to awake his master's wrath,

Though much unwilling, bars me from his presence.

Adel. Unkind old man! I would myself entreat him,

But fear my earnest look, these starting tears,

Might to the experience of his prying age

Reveal a secret, which, in vain, I strive