Why then, that flower’d bowl my ancestor
Fetch’d from the farthest east—we never use it
For fear of breakage—but this day has brought
A great occasion. You can take it, nurse!
Elisabetta.
I did take it, my lord, but what with my lady’s coming that had so flurried me, and what with the fear of breaking it, I did break it, my lord: it is broken!
Count.
My one thing left of value in the world!
No matter! see your cloth be white as snow!
Elisabetta (pointing thro’ window).