[Shivering.] The dew comes down.
Mother, the cloak with ermine! [She goes out.
[The Mute creeps under the bushes to the further side of the litter and takes Cesare’s hand that falls that way.
Lord Cardinal Giovanni Vera of Perugia enters attended.
VERA.
Della Rovere,
Since you packed cards with him to save your Duchy,
Vicariate and Gonfaloniership,
Selling him all your Spanish votes, has triumphed,
Yea, of your making, is Pope Julius now,
Julius the Second.
CESARE.
Julius—Cesar
Must be allies.
VERA.
I knelt down at his feet,
I told his Holiness you lay in peril,
Close on your death, and longed to die in Rome.