ACT THREE. SCENE I. Florence. A Room in the DUKE's Palace. Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence and his Train, two French Lords, and Soldiers. UKE. So that, from point to point, now have you heard DUKE. The fundamental reasons of this war; Whose great decision hath much blood let forth, And more thirsts after. 1 Lord. Holy seems the quarrel Upon your Grace's part; black and fearful On the opposer's. Duke. Therefore we marvel much our cousin France Would, in so just a business, shut his bosom Against our borrowing prayers. 1 Lord. Good my lord, 10 The reasons of our state I cannot yield 1 The original stage-direction at the head of this Scene is Flourish. Enter the Duke of Florence, the two Frenchmen, with a troupe of Souldiers, and the first reply to the Duke has the prefix 1. Lord; the second, French E; the third, Fren. G. The question of these prefixes in this Scene is of small importance; but it extends itself to various VOL. IV. - 21 others. In Scenes ii. and vi and in IV. i. and iii. the prefixes have E and G. They were evidently but the initial letters of the actors who played, "doubling," as it is called, these inferior parts. 13 By self-unable motion, i. e. he being "an outward man," was incompetent to form a judgment of a council except through his unaided intelligence. |