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If thou hast believ'd that I shall act A part in this thy play, Thou hast miscalculated on me grievously. My way must be straight on. True with the tongue, False with the heart—I may not, cannot be: Nor can I suffer that a man should trust me— As his friend trust me—and then lull my conscience With such low pleas as these:—"I ask'd him not— He did it all at his own hazard—and My mouth has never lied to him."—No, no! What a friend takes me for, that I must be. —I'll to the Duke; ere yet this day is ended Will I demand of him that he do save His good name from the world, and with one stride Break through and rend this fine-spun web of your's. He can, he will!—I still am his believer, Yet I'll not pledge myself, but that those letters May furnish you, perchance, with proofs against him. How far may not this Tertsky have proceeded— What may not he himself too have permitted Himself to do, to snare the enemy, The laws of war excusing? Nothing, save His own mouth shall convict him—nothing less! And face to face will I go question him.

Thou wilt? MAX.