Enter the Doge.
Doge.I have obeyed your summons.
Chief of the Ten. We come once more to urge our past request.
Doge. And I to answer.
Chief of the Ten.What?
Doge.My only answer.
You have heard it.
Chief of the Ten.Hear you then the last decree,
Definitive and absolute!
Doge.To the point—