LUCREZIA.
Excuse him!
ALEXANDER.
Even our ladies, Poto,
Plead for the Duke’s seclusion. Without doubt
He waits for sundown to forsake the place
Where he was sociable.
LUCREZIA.
Then is Giovanni
So wary in his fancies?
ALEXANDER.
Oh, for my sake—
But you forget it—for his father’s sake ...
To-night he will be with us—we have patience:
Though not to fix when we review his troops,
That is a fault and we must chide our Captain.
Well, my Lord Casanova, close
Your treasury: we would not lose such jewels!
SCENE II
A Room in the Lord Cesare Borgia’s Palace of Borgo Sant’Angelo.