Lor. (pointing to the Doge's body). That he has paid me![83]
Chief of the Ten. What debt did he owe you?370
Lor. A long and just one; Nature's debt and mine.[84]
[Curtain falls[85]
FOOTNOTES:
[34] {113}[The MS. of The Two Foscari is now in the possession of H.R.H. the Princess of Wales.]
[35] [Begun June the 12th, completed July the 9th, Ravenna, 1821.—Byron MS.]
[36] [Gov. "The father softens—but the governor is fixed." Dingle. "Aye that antithesis of persons is a most established figure."—Critic, act ii. sc. 2.
Byron may have guessed that this passage would be quoted against him, and, by taking it as a motto, hoped to anticipate or disarm ridicule; or he may have selected it out of bravado, as though, forsooth, the public were too stupid to find him out.]
[at]{121} ——too soon repeated.—[MS. erased.]