Mar. I say he's innocent! And were he not so,

Is our own blood and kin to shrink from us

In fatal moments?

Doge.‍I shrank not from him:

But I have other duties than a father's;

The state would not dispense me from those duties;

Twice I demanded it, but was refused:[53]

They must then be fulfilled.

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