O would I who o'erheard might tell my lady!—

And Signor Rizzio goes free to-day!

Free to return here unto his own home!

Free to cast from him a year's ignorance,

A year's imprisonment beyond the pale

Of any word or message

And learn how on his wedding-day when he

Was seized and on his wedding-night when he

Expected to return.... At that you quail?

Begone then, or—