This air is most oppressive!- Madam- the Duke!
(Enter DI BROGLIO)
DI BROGLIO
My son, I've news for thee!- hey?- what's the matter? (observing
Alessandra)
I' the pouts? Kiss her, Castiglione! kiss her,
You dog! and make it up, I say, this minute!
I've news for you both. Politian is expected
Hourly in Rome- Politian, Earl of Leicester!
We'll have him at the wedding. 'Tis his first visit
To the imperial city.
ALESSANDRA
What! Politian
Of Britain, Earl of Leicester?
DI BROGLIO
The same, my love.
We'll have him at the wedding. A man quite young
In years, but grey in fame. I have not seen him,
But Rumour speaks of him as of a prodigy
Preeminent in arts and arms, and wealth,
As of one who entered madly into life,
Drinking the cup of pleasure to the dregs.
And high descent. We'll have him at the wedding.
ALESSANDRA
I have heard much of this Politian.
Gay, volatile and giddy- is he not?
And little given to thinking.
DI BROGLIO
Far from it, love.
No branch, they say, of all philosophy
So deep abstruse he has not mastered it.
Learned as few are learned.
ALESSANDRA
'Tis very strange!
I have known men have seen Politian
And sought his company.
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