Your sires were mine, and you are heir in all things.220

Lor. You best know if I should be so.

Doge.‍I do.

Your fathers were my foes, and I have heard

Foul rumours were abroad; I have also read

Their epitaph, attributing their deaths

To poison. 'Tis perhaps as true as most

Inscriptions upon tombs, and yet no less

A fable.

Lor.‍Who dares say so?