2230 conTD oo YAN SWIETEN (contd) here to enchie us! You and me, just as much as Bis Majesty. BONN Bello! Bello, Barcne! ... Veramente! MOZART 1 Bello! ... Come on Row, es be honest! Woulen't you all rather listen to your hairdressers than Hercules? ... Or Hozatius! Oz Orpheus! Oh, bello! B All these old zeres: People so lozty 7 they sound as if they shit marble! VAN SWIETEN what? STRACK Govern your tongue, sir! ... How daze you? ... A pause. All lock at the Expezor, MOZART Forgive se, Majesty ...°I'm a vulea> man. But I assure you, sy ausic is not! JOSEPE You are pas te, Mozart -~ but you €o net perstadi MOZART Sire, the whole opera is finished! De you kacw how much work went into it? BONO His Majesty has been nore chan patient, Signerel MOZART dow can I perstade vou if you wen't let me show is? ROSENBERG ‘That will do, Zezz Mozart! MOZART < Just let ze tell you hew it begins: MOBART May I just do that, Majesty? Skew you how it"begins? ... dust that? ...