ALL (with impetuosity). Down with the Dorias! Down with them, uncle and nephew!
FIESCO (counting them with a smile). Twelve is a mighty force!
SOME OF THEM. These Dorias must away! the state must be reformed!
1ST ARTISAN. To throw our magistrates down stairs! The magistrates!
2D ARTISAN. Think, Count Lavagna—down stairs! because they opposed them in the election——
ALL. It must not be endured! it shall not be endured!
3D ARTISAN. To take a sword into the senate!
1ST ARTISAN. A sword?—the sign of war—into the chamber of peace!
2D ARTISAN. To come into the senate dressed in scarlet! Not like the other senators, in black.
1ST ARTISAN. To drive through our capital with eight horses!