The Duchess of Padua Author:Oscar Wilde Guido [Taking a letter from his pocket and reading it.] ?The hour noon; the city, Padua; the place, the market; and the day, Saint Philip?s Day.? Ascanio And what of the man, how shall we know him? Guido [reading still] ?I will wear a violet cloak with a silver falcon broidered on the shoulder.? A brave attire, Ascanio. Ascanio I?d sooner have... more » my leathern jerkin. And you think he will tell you of your father? Guido Why, yes! It is a month ago now, you remember; I was in the vineyard, just at the corner nearest the road, where the goats used to get in, a man rode up and asked me was my name Guido, and gave me this letter, signed ?Your Father?s Friend,? bidding me be here today if I would know the secret of my birth, and telling me how to recognise the writer! I had always thought old Pedro was my uncle, but he told me that he was not, but that I had been left a child in his charge by some one he had never since seen.« less