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!
ALL. A tyrant! A traitor to the country and the government!
2D ARTISAN. To hire two hundred Germans from the Emperor for his body-guard.
1ST ARTISAN. To bring foreigners in arms against the natives—Germans against Italians—soldiers against laws!
ALL. 'Tis treason!—'tis a plot against the liberty of Genoa!
1ST ARTISAN. To have the arms of the republic painted on his coach!
2D ARTISAN. The statue of Andreas placed in the centre of the senate-house!