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Kind greeting to you all: I am right glad To see my friends and native walls again.

You're come upon us in a stirring time.

Tell him at once Castruccio is our prisoner.

You're over hasty; for the count may be One of Castruccio's partisans.

Arrezi always liked the strongest side, And hence betrothed his daughter to Castruccio.

What, to my cousin—to the fair Bianca?

You do not look as if you liked the news.

Will you go with us to the Senate-house? Your uncle will be there.

As yet I am too new to join your councils.

We may not loiter, even now awaits The envoy sent from Florence.

Make ye what terms ye can—secure yourselves: The Florentines will gladly aid your cause. They hate Castruccio—hate, because they fear.

We are too late: farewell, we meet anon.[Exeunt.