MACCHIAVELLI.
ACT VI
SCENE I
Three years later.
A small Tower-prison of the Castle of La Mota del Medina in Spain.
Against one wall, hung with a canvas, four or five gyr-falcons sit leashed on a perch.
Don Cesare Borgia leans out of the narrow window, watching the pitch of his gyr-falcon. The Governor Don Pedro de Tapia and a squire, Juanito Grasica, stand behind him.
CESARE.
She rows the air, she towers ... now makes her point,
Now waits—she waits up the free air.
Magnificent!... A kite that she would vanquish....
Quarry—and she upon her tower ... free to drink blood.