Cardinal: O stone! thou stone!

Charles: Have peace. A keener cry comes up to me
Than frenzy can invoke: a vaster pain
Than justice from Omnipotence may call.

Cardinal: My lips shall learn it.

Charles: "Father" moans it. "Father!"——
It is my ears' inheritance forever.

Enter Fulvia

Fulvia: Lord Cardinal, one of your servants has
In quarrel been struck, and mortally 'tis feared.
Quickly to him: then I may plead of you
Escort to Rome.

Cardinal: I do not understand.

Fulvia: But shall.

Cardinal: To Rome?

Fulvia: Do not pause here to learn
With the dear minutes of a dying man.
(Cardinal goes.