Eri. I am not one

Of those weak spirits that timorously keep watch

For fair occasions, thence to borrow hues

Of virtue for their deeds. My school hath been

Where power sits crown’d and arm’d. And, mark me, sister!

To a distrustful nature it might seem

Strange, that your lips thus earnestly should plead

For these Sicilian rebels. O’er my being

Suspicion holds no power. And yet, take note—

I have said, and they must die.