Actus primi Scena prima.
- Carolo Charomonte.
- Contarino.
Carolo.
YOu bring your welcome with you.
Contarino.
Sir, I finde it
In every circumstance.
Carolo.
Againe most welcome.
Yet give me leave to wish (and pray you excuse mee)
For I must use the freedome I was borne with)
The great Dukes pleasure had commanded you
To my poore house upon some other service,
Not this you are designde to; but his will
Must be obeyde, how ere it ravish from me
The happy conversation of one
As deere to me as the old Romans held
Their houshold Lars, whom they beleev'd had power
To blesse and guard their Families.
Contarino.
'Tis receiv'd so:
On my part Signior; nor can the Duke
But promise to himselfe as much as may
Be hop'd for from a Nephew. And t'were weaknesse
In any man to doubt, that Giovanni
Train'd up by your experience and care
In all those Arts peculiar, and proper
To future Greatnesse, of necessity
Must in his actions being growne a man
Make good the Princely education
Which Hee deriv'd from you.
Carolo.
I have discharg'd,
To the utmost of my power, the trust the Duke
Committed to me, and with joy perceive