CARDINAL SEGOVIA.
[Passing out.] Your Excellency, the Pope’s Holiness
Has at the very edge of death been spared.
LUCREZIA.
I am so thankful! [Physicians come out.
BISHOP OF VENOSA.
Nothing of danger! He is torn, he is shaken.
He asked for you.
LUCREZIA.
BISHOP OF VENOSA.
No, no, Madonna,
He is asleep, and even your steps would rouse him!
He will demand you later as his nurse,
His cook, his smiling comfort. God be thanked!