'Tis
Decided; but as yet his doom's unknown:
I saw the President in act to seal
The parchment which will bear the Forty's judgment
Unto the Doge, and hasten to inform him.
Decided; but as yet his doom's unknown:
I saw the President in act to seal
The parchment which will bear the Forty's judgment
Unto the Doge, and hasten to inform him.
Byron
With struggling patience.
[cw]
Placed at the Ducal table, covered o'er
With all the apparel of the state--petitions,
Despatches, judgments, acts, reprieves, reports,--
He sits as rapt in duty; but whene'er[cx] 10
He hears the jarring of a distant door,
Or aught that intimates a coming step,[cy]
Or murmur of a voice, his quick eye wanders,
And he will start up from his chair, then pause,
And seat himself again, and fix his gaze
Upon some edict; but I have observed
For the last hour he has not turned a leaf.
_Bat_. 'Tis said he is much moved,--and doubtless 'twas
Foul scorn in Steno to offend so grossly.
_Pie_. Aye, if a poor man: Steno's a patrician, 20
Young, galliard, gay, and haughty. [cz]
_Bat_. Then you think
He will not be judged hardly?
_Pie_. 'Twere enough
He be judged justly; but 'tis not for us
To anticipate the sentence of the Forty.
_Bat_. And here it comes. --What news, Vincenzo?
_Enter_ VINCENZO.
_Vin_.
'Tis
Decided; but as yet his doom's unknown:
I saw the President in act to seal
The parchment which will bear the Forty's judgment
Unto the Doge, and hasten to inform him.
[_Exeunt_.
SCENE II. --The Ducal Chamber.
MARINO FALIERO, _Doge; and his Nephew_, BERTUCCIO FALIERO. [381]
_Ber. F. _ It cannot be but they will do you justice.
_Doge_. Aye, such as the Avogadori[382] did,
Who sent up my appeal unto the Forty
To try him by his peers, his own tribunal.
_Ber. F. _ His peers will scarce protect him; such an act
Would bring contempt on all authority.
_Doge_. Know you not Venice? Know you not the Forty?
Placed at the Ducal table, covered o'er
With all the apparel of the state--petitions,
Despatches, judgments, acts, reprieves, reports,--
He sits as rapt in duty; but whene'er[cx] 10
He hears the jarring of a distant door,
Or aught that intimates a coming step,[cy]
Or murmur of a voice, his quick eye wanders,
And he will start up from his chair, then pause,
And seat himself again, and fix his gaze
Upon some edict; but I have observed
For the last hour he has not turned a leaf.
_Bat_. 'Tis said he is much moved,--and doubtless 'twas
Foul scorn in Steno to offend so grossly.
_Pie_. Aye, if a poor man: Steno's a patrician, 20
Young, galliard, gay, and haughty. [cz]
_Bat_. Then you think
He will not be judged hardly?
_Pie_. 'Twere enough
He be judged justly; but 'tis not for us
To anticipate the sentence of the Forty.
_Bat_. And here it comes. --What news, Vincenzo?
_Enter_ VINCENZO.
_Vin_.
'Tis
Decided; but as yet his doom's unknown:
I saw the President in act to seal
The parchment which will bear the Forty's judgment
Unto the Doge, and hasten to inform him.
[_Exeunt_.
SCENE II. --The Ducal Chamber.
MARINO FALIERO, _Doge; and his Nephew_, BERTUCCIO FALIERO. [381]
_Ber. F. _ It cannot be but they will do you justice.
_Doge_. Aye, such as the Avogadori[382] did,
Who sent up my appeal unto the Forty
To try him by his peers, his own tribunal.
_Ber. F. _ His peers will scarce protect him; such an act
Would bring contempt on all authority.
_Doge_. Know you not Venice? Know you not the Forty?
