We are alone, none to way-lay the words

That travel from your lips; speak out at once;

Or, by the heavens, Blanca,—

Blan. Oh, my liege,

Not in one breath

Turn royal mercy into needless threat;

Though it be true my bosom has so long

This secret kept close prisoner, and hop’d

To have it buried with me in my grave,

Yet if I peril my own name and theirs