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I've heard of _heirs_ in sables--you have left none
To the deceased, so you would act the part 360
Of such. Well, sirs, your will be done! as one day,
I trust, Heaven's will be done too! [bx]

_Chief of the Ten_. Know you, Lady,
To whom ye speak, and perils of such speech?

_Mar. _ I know the former better than yourselves;
The latter--like yourselves; and can face both.
Wish you more funerals?

_Bar. _ Heed not her rash words;
Her circumstances must excuse her bearing.

_Chief of the Ten_. We will not note them down.

_Bar. _ (_turning to Lor. , who is writing upon his tablets_).
What art thou writing,
With such an earnest brow, upon thy tablets?

_Lor. _ (_pointing to the Doge's body_). That _he_ has paid me! [83]

_Chief of the Ten_. What debt did he owe you? 370

_Lor. _ A long and just one; Nature's debt and _mine_. [84]
[_Curtain falls_[85]


FOOTNOTES:

[34] {113}[The MS. of _The Two Foscari_ is now in the possession of
H. R. H. the Princess of Wales. ]

[35] [Begun June the 12th, completed July the 9th, Ravenna,
1821. --_Byron MS_. ]

[36] [_Gov.