So known—if not entreated—heretofore—

Though not by you—For, now I think again,

Of what should be your attestation worth,

You that of all my questionable subjects

Who knowing what, yet left me where, I was,

You least of all, Clotaldo, till the dawn

Of this first day that told it to myself?

Clo. Oh, let your Highness draw the line across

Fore-written sorrow, and in this new dawn

Bury that long sad night.