Your Blessedness,
Lord Cardinal Orsini died this morning;
All our physicians
Could not subdue his terror that has summoned
The death it feared.
ALEXANDER.
You watched?
POTO.
I watched him; as a babe, he breathed his last.
ALEXANDER.
Good, good Orsini—as a babe! His mother
Bears but the common loss.
I am shaking, Poto.
Quick, to his private house, surprise the treasure;
Go, seal it ours; go, inventory all. [Exit Poto.
[At the door.] Command Burcardus lay the Cardinal
Where it is public to the scrutiny
Of the whole world he died a natural death.
POTO’S VOICE.
Burcardus, Holiness, refuses portion
In this affair.