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94 MORTADELLO ALESSANDRO. So I half guessed, but then, with all respect to you, I counted, gentlemen, and always stopped at two. 1ST MASK. Since Gabriele died the two have lacked a third. ALESSANDRO. Well, I am satisfied : I wait the fatal word. 1ST MASK. What do you mean ? ALESSANDRO. I find your words are coffin-nails. You always bear in mind that dead men tell no tales. So when you tell me tales, and fear no murmur lives, You need not lift your veils. 2ND MASK. [In the central throne.] There are alternatives. Young man, well parley first. Y…
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…girls for me ! Well, I prefer them slim ! [To the lady beside him.] Heres to your eyes, my dove ! [All appear startled and shocked. 2ND MASK. Take care, my lord, I hope You will not allow love to make you slight the Pope ! 1ST MASK. Then drink his Holiness, and get the business done. 2ND MASK. A pretty sort of mess you have just missed, my son ! LORENZO. Oh heres the good old Pope, long may he live and reign ! And when he dies, I hope he may rise again. [All but MORTADELLO drink saying The Pope. 2ND MASK. Easy, lad, easy. But, my lord, you…
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…agate, the scandal of the sun. Im a young spark, you guess, a fashionable rake But see me doff the dress when Venice is at stake ! 1ST MASK. So the Princess must rule with you to help her, sir ? ALESSANDRO. With you to guide the fool whose ways may chance to err ! That was my scheme : if I divine your minds too ill, Ive only once to die ; gentlemen, whats your will ? 2ND MASK. Be seated sir. ALESSANDRO. [Bewildered a moment.] I see no seat : ah, but I do ! I claim equality and brotherhood with you. [He assumes the vacant throne. 1ST and 2ND…
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96 MORTADELLO ALESSANDRO. An idle page in Venice chronicle ! 2ND MASK. See to it, sir, that you with us, in changing barque, Accomplish and renew the glories of St. Mark ! ALESSANDRO. Ay ! tis the period when final fortune smiles. By the great grace of God the City of the Isles Under her angels wings shall dare a thousand things A grace as great as Gods, a face as fair as Springs ! [The curtain falls. SCENE III. The palace of COUNT ALESSANDRO. A chamber arrayed for dining, the table being curved like a horse-shoe. MORTADELLO on the right o…
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102 MORTADELLO First Ill send the cursèd Legate there ! Come on ! [He has seized his sword from an attendant, and rushes out. 1ST MASK. Well follow ! ALESSANDRO. Touch him not ; the plays half played. 2ND MASK. We are his shadows ! ALESSANDRO. Night shall fall. [The men follow MORTADELLO at full speed ZELINA. [Rising.] We are betrayed. Oh, but Ill save him yet ! I see the pretty plot. Ill find a finer fantasy ! LUCREZIA. [Rising and unveiling.] No, you shall not ! Here, for the dagger-stroke you struckthis to your heart ! And this across …
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… and wish ! I swear the word shall be fulfilled ! [She offers the hashish potion. MORTADELLO. Then this dogs life of man and wife 1ST MASK. Oh, strife be stilled ! 2ND MASK. My lord, consider. MORTADELLO. What ? Who beards me, balks me ? ALESSANDRO. I Beseech your Highness. MORTADELLO. Well ! MONICA. Oh let me prophesy !
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…middle of the room holds four candles in iron candlesticks ; the candles themselves are of black wax. Two of the thrones are occupied by masked men ; the third is empty. Near the table stands ALESSANDRO, gorgeously dressed in white velvet, with a great crimson cloak. He is toying with his hat and rapier. ALESSANDRO. I am here, my lords. Disclose : why have you summoned me ? THE 1ST MASK. [In the side throne.] Where do you stand ? ALESSANDRO. God knows. 1ST MASK. You stand before the Three.
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…day that saved my life. The wind to stir your leaves, the star to crown your foam : Saint Monica receives the full support of Rome ! 2ND MASK. [Showing a parchment.] Most secret in the State, the Three have stood apart, Ruling the pulse and rate of all the civic heart. For them I speak : they vow to place the Ducal Cap On the Princesss brow, the sceptre in her lap.
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…d all my dream, and all mens orison. MONICA. Speak ; it is yours. ORLANDO. I ask a rarer prize than life. MONICA. Take off the Sphinxs mask. ORLANDO. I want you for my wife. MONICA. My lord, ask something else. I am not worthy of love. ORLANDO. Love, if I read you, spells a word you know not of. Therefore therein for me the supreme triumph lies. [MONICA hesitates and prays silently. MONICA. My Venice, tis for thee I make the sacrifice. Must it be so ? Behold, like babe-soft moons of snow. Moons barely three days old, my virgin breasts aglow.…