Loredano (aside.)

Unwonted clemency! I well can guess

Its meaning!

(To Foscarini.) Dost thou not fear the torture?

Foscarini.

Ye may tear

Emulous, these wretched limbs; your power can never

Reach to the soul, unless your hatred dare

To chronicle as words the groans that falter

Upon the blood-stained lip; here, I repeat it,