Bel.Let us but regain440
The free air of the city, and we'll shorten
The journey.
Arb.'Twill be shortened at the gates,
It may be.
Bel.No; they hardly will risk that.
They mean us to die privately, but not
Within the palace or the city walls,
Where we are known, and may have partisans:
If they had meant to slay us here, we were