Just heaven, from which I await my relief, put, at last, some limit to the misfortune which is overcoming [_lit._ possesses] me; secure my repose, secure my honor. In the happiness of others I seek my own. This bridal is equally important to three [parties]; render its completion more prompt, or my soul more enduring. To unite these two lovers with a marriage-tie is to break all my chains and to end all my sorrows. But I tarry a little too long; let us go to meet Chimene, and, by conversation, to relieve our grief. Scene IV.--COUNT DE GORMAS and DON DIEGO (meeting). _Count._ At last you have gained it [_or_, prevailed], and the favor of a King raises you to a rank which was due only to myself; he makes you Governor of the Prince of Castile. _Don Diego._ This mark of distinction with which he distinguishes [_lit._ which he puts into] my family shows to all that he is just, and causes it to be sufficiently understood, that he knows how to recompense bygone services. _Count._ However great kings may be, they are only men [_lit._ they are that which we are]; they can make mistakes like other men, and this choice serves as a proof to all courtiers that they know how to [_or_, can] badly recompense present services. _Don Diego._ Let us speak no more of a choice at which your mind becomes exasperated. Favor may have been able to do as much as merit; but we owe this respect to absolute power, to question nothing when a king has wished it. To the honor which he has done me add another--let us join by a sacred tie my house to yours. You have an only daughter, and I have an only son; their marriage may render us for ever more than friends. Grant us this favor, and accept, him as a son-in-law. _Count._ To higher alliances this precious son ought [_or_, is likely] to aspire; and the new splendor of your dignity ought to inflate his heart with another [higher] vanity. Exercise that [dignity], sir, and instruct the prince. Show him how it is necessary to rule a province: to make the people tremble everywhere under his law; to fill the good with love, and the wicked with terror. Add to these virtues those of a commander: show him how it is necessary to inure himself to fatigue; in the profession of a warrior [_lit._ of Mars] to render himself without an equal; to pass entire days and nights on horseback; to sleep all-armed: to storm a rampart, and to owe to himself alone the winning of a battle. Instruct him by example, and render him perfect, bringing your lessons to his notice by carrying them into effect. _Don Diego._ To instruct himself by example, in spite of your jealous feelings, he shall read only the history of my life. There, in a long succession of glorious deeds, he shall see how nations ought to be subdued; to attack a fortress, to marshal an army, and on great exploits to build his renown.