The Vatican
Enter CAESAR and VANNOZZA

CAESAR

Now, mother, though thou love my brother more,
Am I not more thy son than he?

VANNOZZA

Not more.

CAESAR

Have I more Spaniard in me--less of thee?
Did our Most Holiest father thrill thy womb
With more Italian passion than brought forth
Me?

VANNOZZA

Child, thine elder never was as thou -
Spake never thus.

CAESAR

I doubt it not. But I,
Mother, am not mine elder. He desires
And he enjoys the life God gives him--God,
The Pope our father, and thy sacred self,