y, so you said before, I think. And you
With that white wand of yours--
Why, now I think on't, I have read of such
A silver-hair'd magician with a wand,
Who in a moment, with a wave of it,
Turn'd rags to jewels, clowns to emperors,
By some benigner magic than the stars
Spirited poor good people out of hand
From all their woes; in some enchanted sleep
Carried them off on cloud or dragon-back
Over the mountains, over the wide Deep,
And set them down to wake in Fairyland.

CHAMB.
Oh, my good Lord, you laugh at me--and I
Right glad to make you laugh at such a price:
You know me no enchanter: if I were,
I and my wand as much as your Highness',
As now your chamberlain--

SEG.
My chamberlain?--
And these that follow you?--

CHAMB.
On you, my Lord,
Your Highness' lords in waiting.

SEG.
Lords in waiting.
Well, I have now learn'd to repeat, I think,
If only but by rote--This is my palace,
And this my throne--which unadvised--And that
Out of the window there my Capital;
And all the people moving up and down
My subjects and my vassals like yourselves,
My chamberlain--and lords in waiting--and
Clotaldo--and Clotaldo?--
You are an aged, and seem a reverend man--
You do not--though his fellow-officer--
You do not mean to mock me?

CHAMB.
Oh, my Lord!

SEG.
Well then--If no magician, as you say,
Yet setting me a riddle, that my brain,
With all its senses whirling, cannot solve,
Yourself or one of these with you must answer--
How I--that only last night fell asleep
Not knowing that the very soil of earth
I lay down--chain'd--to sleep upon was Poland--
Awake to find myself the Lord of it,
With Lords, and Generals, and Chamberlains,
And ev'n my very Gaoler, for my vassals!

Enter suddenly Clotaldo

CLOTALDO.
Stand all aside
That I may put into his hand the clue
To lead him out of this amazement. Sir,
Vouchsafe your Highness from my bended knee
Receive my homage first.

SEG.
Clotaldo! What,
At last--his old self--undisguised where all
Is masquerade--to end it!--You kneeling too!
What! have the stars you told me long ago
Laid that old work upon you, added this,
That, having chain'd your prisoner