The Borgias, Season Two

Lucrezia Borgia:
Stop!... Who are you?

Alfonso of Aragon:
(smiles pleasantly) I'm Prince Alfonso D'Aragona, Duke of Bisceglie and Prince of Salerno.

Lucrezia Borgia:
What are you doing here?

Alfonso of Aragon:
(not realizing who she is) I'm suitor to the Lady Lucrezia, daughter of His Holiness Alexander VI, Pope of Rome.

Lucrezia Borgia:
(annoyed) Indeed. Lucrezia Borgia? (Alfonso nods, she decides to toy with him)...Poor boy. Come! I will take you to her. (she leads him away from his entourage into her apartments) So, you are suitor to the Lady Lucrezia?

Alfonso of Aragon:
I am.

Lucrezia Borgia:
A great responsibility for one so young. Take off your cloak. (Alfonso looks puzzled then smiles slightly)

Alfonso of Aragon:
If I remove my cloak, what will you remove in return?

Lucrezia Borgia:
You'll see. (gestures for him to take off the cloak) The Lady Lucrezia has a great many suitors. Some are wheat... some are chaff. And it falls to me, to separate the one from the other. (Alfonso smiles and removes his cloak)

Alfonso of Aragon:
I am neither wheat, nor chaff. I am Alfonso D'Aragona... and I am flesh and blood.

Lucrezia Borgia:
(sizing him up) Turn around.

Alfonso of Aragon:
(shrugs) If it pleases you. (slowly turns in a circle)

Lucrezia Borgia:
(smiles slightly)... It pleases me.

Alfonso of Aragon:
Now, you must do the same in return. (walks slowly around her)

Lucrezia Borgia:
(turns slowly in a circle) If it pleases you.

Alfonso of Aragon:
...It pleases me. (smiles) So... What now? How far, does your Lady Lucrezia care for this game to go on?

Lucrezia Borgia:
(shrugs, approaches him) There is no limit. Just as one would have one's groom break in a new horse...so it is, with my Lady's lovers and me.