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Bologna’s tower are as strong as ever
And of food and drink we have enough for seven days.
Duke
And if it were for seven years,Magnani
What matters it to me? From immense freedom,
Bounded only by the heavens
I look to to-morrow to Conprisonment
Ind to be surrounded by thick walls.
I could not bear it, even for a day, and could not
Even were there hope of better times beckoning,
And none beckons.
Magnani
Sire, it seems impossible
That theÓwly lworn alliance of the Princes
Of Naples and Sicily,hould be forget!
Duke
It seems to you impossible? Yet say, did you take
Into consideration the papers, which were found
At Mariscotti's? Show them to him, Cosini
Cost of Cosini
My Prince, as carefully as I read them, they showed me
That someone tried, to further Caesar a plans
By lienning Naples,but do not show
That the effort was successful.
Duke
He it is! To-day I know it!
And know too, that deep within me I knew it,
When two moons ago in bright daylight
We sat at Anjou s table, when in Naples, – I knew too
How Borgia threatened us, when we in Rome
were received by the Cope with deceitful embrace.
Death was prepared for us in the evening real,
Therefore took I my leave, before the real was served.
Magnani
If this is true, then we have food for thought.
Borgia does not know that you obceeded
In reaching Bologna, Mariscotti
Was to him the master of the city. Now, since his plan,
Miscarried,and Bologna has her Duke again,
Who knows,but Cassar will not beίnclined-
Duke
Just to return from whence he came?
Magnani
Not that! Yet to make conditions,
About which there would be parleyings.