MARINELLI.
Well?
PRINCE.
By the God of justice I swear that I am innocent of this blood. Had you previously told me that the Count's life must be sacrificed--God is my witness I would as soon have consented to lose my own.
MARINELLI.
Had I previously told you! As if the Count's death was part of my plan! I charged Angelo that on his soul he should take care that no person suffered injury; and this, too, would have been the case, had not the Count begun the fray, and shot the first assailant on the spot.
PRINCE.
Indeed! he ought to have understood the joke better.
MARINELLI.
So that Angelo was enraged, and instantly avenged his comrade's death----