Their sight will be enough. [Exit Steno.

Contarini.

Enough! how rash

To tempt their fury! Need we linger now?

Command his instant execution—let

The rabble see what tumults will avail.

Badoero.

Not so. Should we anticipate the hour

’Twould show that we have feared them—that we heed

The voice of faction. Let our first decree