Maria. O my Altofront!    150

Pietro. [to Aurelia.] A tyrant’s jealousies
Are very nimble: you receive it all?

Aur. My heart, though not my knees, doth humbly fall
Low as the earth, to thee.

Mal.[574] Peace! next change; no words.

Maria. Speech to such, ay, O, what will affords!

[Cornets sound the measure over again; which danced, they unmask.

Men. Malevole!

[They environ Mendoza, bending their pistols on him.

Mal. No.

Men. Altofront! Duke Pietro![575] Ferneze! ha!