Guard. ... How feel you?

Jacopo Foscari. Like a boy—Oh Venice!

Guard. And your limbs?

Jac. Fos. Limbs! how often have they borne me

Bounding o’er yon blue tide, as I have skimm’d

The gondola along in childish race,

And, masked as a young gondolier, amidst

My gay competitors, noble as I,

Raced for our pleasure, in the pride of strength;

While the fair populace of crowding beauties,