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Where I scarce thought

To leave so soon, your Highness; in Cesena,

Within my husband's castle.

Pardon, madame,

That I have set you on a hurried journey,

Still more that I have wronged you in my thoughts!

[Aside.] They laugh! Laugh on, my lord, while it is time.

Will 't please you, grant me audience; you shall hear

To the minute how my hours went yesterday,

Down to this moment.

Come out in the air;

I stifle within hearing of their mirth.

[To .] Stay here; see that the other 'scape me not.

The other! Not Ginevra?

[To .] Good, my lord,

Your wife slept at Cesena, yet her chamber

Was not untenanted last night, I'll swear!

And so thou might'st, yet break no oath.

Who slept in 't?