Doge. I shall not need so many seconds.
Chief of the Ten.We
Will now retire.
Doge.Stay! four and twenty hours
Will alter nothing which I have to say.
Chief of the Ten. Speak!
Doge.When I twice before reiterated
My wish to abdicate, it was refused me:40
And not alone refused, but ye exacted
An oath from me that I would never more