It now came to the sixth monarch's turn to speak. "Gentlemen," said he, "I am not so great a prince as the rest of you, it is true, but I am, however, a crowned head. I am Theodore, elected King of Corsica. I have had the title of Majesty, and am now hardly treated with common civility. I have coined money, and am not now worth a single ducat. I have had two secretaries, and am now without a valet. I was once seated on a throne, and since that have lain upon a truss of straw, in a common jail in London, and I very much fear I shall meet with the same fate here in Venice, where I came, like Your Majesties, to divert myself at the Carnival."
Habló por último el sexto monarca, y dixo: Caballeros, yo no soy tan gran señor como vms., mas al cabo rey he sido como el mas pintado: mi nombre es Teodoro; fuí electo rey en Córcega, me daban magestad, y ahora apénas se dignan de decirme su merced: he hecho acuñar moneda, y no tengo un maravedí; tenia dos secretarios de estado, y apénas me queda un lacayo; me he visto en un trono, y he estado mucho tiempo en Londres en una cárcel acostado sobre paja; y me rezelo que me suceda aquí lo mismo, puesto que he venido, como Vuestras Magestades, á pasar el carnaval á Venecia.