Porzia.

No, no, Rizzio!... no!... what are you saying!

[Restrainingly.

Will you requite injustice with a worse?

[To Querio, who is unmoved.

Monsignor, this in truth is hunting haste,

To search him out

Upon his wedding-day,

And bind him with the very wreaths of it!

Could you not wait an eve, a night, until