DRAMATIS PERSONE. MEN. FRANCIS FOSCARI, Doge of Venice. JACOPO FOSCARI, Son of the Doge. JAMES LOREDANO, a Patrician. MARCO MEMMO, a Chief of the Forty. BARBARIGO, a Senator. OTHER SENATORS, THE COUNCIL OF TEN, GUARDS, Attendants, etc. etc. WOMEN. MARINA, Wife of young FOSCARI. Scene-the Ducal Palace, Venice. THE TWO FOSCARI. ACT I. SCENE I-A HALL IN THE DUCAL PALACE. The hour's past-fix'd yesterday For the resumption of his trial.-Let us Urge his recall. BARBARIGO. Nay, let him profit by A few brief minutes for his tortured limbs; He was o'erwrought by the question yesterday, And may die under it if now repeated. Well! LOREDANO. BARBARIGO. I yield not to you in love of justice, Or hate of the ambitious Foscari, Father and son, and all their noxious race; But the poor wretch has suffer'd beyond nature's Most stoical endurance. His crime. LOREDANO. Without owning BARBARIGO. Perhaps without committing any. But he avow'd the letter to the Duke Of Milan, and his sufferings half atone for Extinct, you may say this.-Let's in to council. BARBARIGO. Yet pause the number of our colleagues is not Complete yet; two are wanting ere we can Proceed. LOREDANO. And the chief judge, the Doge? BARBARIGO. With more than Roman fortitude, is ever His last. No-he, LOREDANO. True-true BARBARIGO. Will nothing move you? But yesterday, I hear, on his return To the ducal chambers, as he pass'd the threshold, I have read their epitaph, which says they died. By poison. |