[Exeunt at several doors.

[237] So ed. 1633.—Ed. 1602 “my.”

[238] We are to suppose that Piero has left the church and is in the courtyard of the palace.

[239] i.e., desire, order.

[240] Old eds. “dub’d.”

[241] See [note 2], p. 114.

[242] Pandulpho is again ready with his Stoic maxims. Seneca wrote a dissertation to show “Nec injuriam nec contumeliam accipere sapientem.”

[243] “I do fear a fetch,” i.e., I suspect that Andrugio has perished by treachery. Fetch = plot, device.

[244] There is an Attic flavour in this passage of stichomythia. For a passing moment one is reminded of Creon’s altercation with his son (in the Antigone):—

Κρ. ὦ παγκάκιστε, διὰ δίκης ἰὼν πατρί.