23.
Duke
I have been so
Anaringly befooled! By them! By her! By everybody.
whom I shall know soon! Order that music
to stop. The feast is over.
Musie stops playing in the garden.
post hear 'tis over! Send those harlots forth,
on out the castle and the garden. That nude one there
rive forth with lashes! And put an end
o Mariseotti.
( vnter the old Nardis; behind them the watehjalso Bennozzo.
were is your daughter?
mere have you hidden her?How much did Borgia
you, or his knaves
rthis extraordinary Joke?
Mrs. Nardi
jur Highness,your gramous highness,merey--
rey! 1 am innocent! I have not hidden Beatrice away.
do not know where she is, I Ewear it by the leavens, that
know not where that wretched child is.
Duke
and the
sak you! Do you not hear?
Nardi
( Claps his hands and laughs.)
Dule
He playe tte fool.
Mrs.Nardi
###ighness, how dkres he so prætend? My husk nd is insane,
is longt imo, for many years. Your Highness,I am to blam for the
brought him to it.You see that I speak the truth. I acknowledge
I am speaking truly, I am a wretehed woman to have brought
to this st to, through my sin, he knows as little as I,where
atrice is!
Duke
a hair of your head will be hurt, speak as you will,
ak freely!
I give my princely word: that you shall not be
punished!
Mrs. Nardi
san tell you nothing... I know nothing.. were I on the raak,
sould say nothing more! No mother was everhhappier than I
a Duke had chosen her humble dav
unter für his bride.
Duke
man! You bore her, brought her up, before.
went to her marriage, you dress
her ha
spoke to her! She to you, who
said she? ere go*
re was she early yesterday,
where
vening?
the name of
whom