DUKE. I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland. MAR. and Let us combine a pose imperious GIU. With a demeanour nobly bland. (Marco and Giuseppe endeavour to carry out his instructions.) DUKE. That's, if anything, too unbending— Too aggressively stiff and grand; (They suddenly modify their attitudes.) Now to the other extreme you're tending— Don't be so deucedly condescending! DUCH. and Now to the other extreme you're tending— CAS. Don't be so dreadfully condescending! MAR. and Oh, hard to please some noblemen seem! GIU. At first, if anything, too unbending; Off we go to the other extreme— Too confoundedly condescending! DUKE. Now a gavotte perform sedately— Offer your hand with conscious pride; Take an attitude not too stately, Still sufficiently dignified. MAR. and Now for an attitude not too stately, GIU. Still sufficiently dignified. (They endeavour to carry out his instructions.) DUKE (beating Oncely, twicely—oncely, twicely— time). Bow impressively ere you glide. (They do so.) Capital both, capital both—you've caught it nicely! That is the style of thing precisely! DUCH. and Capital both, capital both—they've caught it nicely! CAS. That is the style of thing precisely! MAR. and Oh, sweet to earn a nobleman's praise! GIU. Capital both, capital both—we've caught it nicely! Supposing he's right in what he says, This is the style of thing precisely! (Gavotte. At the end exeunt Duke and Duchess, leaving Casilda with Marco and Giuseppe.)