Basini
Did he say I was a poisoner?
Caterina
Well something like it.
Basini
No matter. To-morrow all men will be slike in Bologna,poison
mixers like myself and honorable men like you!
Capponi
Why are you so despondent, Basini? I'm not, our walls are strong,
and our Duke is a hero.
Basini
Of what Gvail is all this against a civil like Borgia?
Caterina
Devil, say you? He is said to be hadsome.
Capponi
Borgia is still far away--hehe!
Basini
Not as far as you think. otherwise how would it be known what
he aware to do yesterday?
Capponi
Well what did he swear to do?
Basini
That he would hold a fearful judgment over this godforsaken
eity.
Capponi
(Is at first should;then he slaps Basini on the shoulder.)
He's always telling
yarns!
To the women
That’s the way with him—didn’t I say so?
Basini
Now, as far as I am concerned, I have closed my shop and shall
not open it again ever.
( Soldiers march by.)
Claudia
Why will you never open your shop again?
Basini
For whom? Do you think that the people who will throng our
streets to-morrow will be good shippers? They'11 take what th y
want.