Fall I beneath your royal vigilance?

King. You soon shall hear: but, Blanca, first take breath,

And still your heart to its accustom’d tune,

For I must have you all yourself to answer

What I must ask of you. Listen to me.

Your son, in the full eye of God and man,

Has struck his father—who as publicly

Has cried to me for vengeance—such a feud

Coming at length to such unnatural close,

Men ’gin to turn suspicious eyes on you,—