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[SCENE: A garden, near the palace at Fiori. The young Duke / Guido is discovered standing with one foot resting on a / garden-bench, looking off, lost in thought. Enter Giovanni.]
GIO. That is a merry face you wear, my Guido! / Now that the young King Mario visits the court / And walks all morning in the woods with the Princess, / Or gives her fencing lessons, -- upon my word, / You are as gay as a gallows!