_ The hour's past--fixed yesterday
For the resumption of his trial.
For the resumption of his trial.
Byron
_Other Senators, The Council of Ten, Guards, Attendants, etc. , etc. _
WOMAN.
MARINA, _Wife of young_ FOSCARI.
SCENE--The Ducal Palace, Venice.
THE TWO FOSCARI.
ACT I.
SCENE I. --_A Hall in the Ducal Palace_.
_Enter_ LOREDANO _and_ BARBARIGO, _meeting_.
_Lor. _ WHERE is the prisoner?
_Bar. _ Reposing from
The Question.
_Lor.
_ The hour's past--fixed yesterday
For the resumption of his trial. --Let us
Rejoin our colleagues in the council, and
Urge his recall.
_Bar. _ Nay, let him profit by
A few brief minutes for his tortured limbs;
He was o'erwrought by the Question yesterday,
And may die under it if now repeated. [at][37]
_Lor. _ Well?
_Bar. _ I yield not to you in love of justice,
Or hate of the ambitious Foscari, 10
Father and son, and all their noxious race;
But the poor wretch has suffered beyond Nature's
Most stoical endurance.
_Lor. _ Without owning
His crime?
_Bar. _ Perhaps without committing any.
But he avowed the letter to the Duke
Of Milan, and his sufferings half atone for
Such weakness.
_Lor. _ We shall see.
_Bar.
