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_Mar. (to the Doge_). Then, father, 280
Surely you can obtain or grant me thus much:
[_To_ LOREDANO.
And you, sir, not oppose my prayer to be
Permitted to accompany my husband.

_Doge_. I will endeavour.

_Mar. _ And you, Signor?

_Lor. _ Lady!
'Tis not for me to anticipate the pleasure
Of the tribunal.

_Mar. _ Pleasure! what a word
To use for the decrees of----

_Doge_.
Daughter, know you
In what a presence you pronounce these things?

_Mar. _ A Prince's and his subject's.

_Lor. _ Subject!

_Mar. _ Oh!
It galls you:--well, you are his equal, as 290
You think; but that you are not, nor would be,
Were he a peasant:--well, then, you're a Prince,
A princely noble; and what then am I?

_Lor. _ The offspring of a noble house.

_Mar. _ And wedded
To one as noble. What, or whose, then, is
The presence that should silence my free thoughts?

_Lor. _ The presence of your husband's Judges.

_Doge_.