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Duke
Theugh we have seen many on our journey.
Yet have we seen none so beautiful as she.
Malvezzi
My Prince,
That we saw so many was not by accident.
A wonderful report ran through the city,
That drove them into your Highness' way.
Dule
What kind of a report?
Malvezzi
It ren, that your Highness
WasΗinclined,to chose some beauty,
Fort his last night,the last before--
Duke
before tomorrow, you said not too much
And not too little. Well, it’s not a bad idea!
Why did it not occur to me this morning,
And at this spot? - Yet t'is better so!
What still remains of this night,
Let it be set aside for special pleasure,
As shall be granted to us by women s favor.
For truly, I have often tried,
Since many wonders have been disclosed to me,
To learn what you call love.
I know desire, and lust and satiety--
But never felt I that wonder! Andt hat you dieugh,
Malvezzi, is not olever of you, or kind either.
Malvezzi
Forgive me,Sire!
Duke
What a foot you are!I know you thought
That the maiden from Bysantium,for whose kind look,
You gave your youth, and paid so dear.
Yet I could love her, if it were your corpse
Which to-day lay tobting at the bottom of the sea,
And not her s.
Malvezzi
I thought of mother, she
who for you, my Prince, forsook a kingdom, and a husband
And at last the world.
Duke
Much—
you mean!
And yet I did not regret her return home greatly,