(Context for this opera: A traveling jester realizes that his wife, who he once believed to be a highly loyal spouse, has been unfaithful to him, this revelation coming shortly before an act that he must put on for a local crowd to entertain tehem. In this, he sorrows over his broken heart as he prepares himself for his upcoming jester show, at one point comparing himself, in his foolishness, to the clown he will soon act as, sobbing over how he could have allowed his wife to go away from him and to another man)