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 With this Sesina? And will he be silent? If he can save himself by yielding up Thy secret purposes, will he retain them?

Thyself dost not conceive it possible; And since they now have evidence authentic How far thou hast already gone, speak!—tell us, What art thou waiting for? Thou canst no longer Keep thy command; and beyond hope of rescue Thou'rt lost, if thou resign'st it.

In the army Lies my security. The army will not Abandon me. Whatever they may know, The power is mine, and they must gulp it down— And substitute I caution for my fealty, They must be satisfied, at least appear so.

The army, Duke, is thine now—for this moment— 'Tis thine: but think with terror on the slow, The quiet power of time. From open vi'lence The attachment of thy soldiery secures thee To-day—to-morrow; but grant'st thou them a respite, Unheard, unseen, they'll undermine that love On which thou now dost feel so firm a footing, With wily theft will draw away from thee One after th' other

'Tis a cursed accident! ILLO.