SIGISMUND No pretence
Shall undo the debt I owe you.
Catiff, hence! By Heaven! I say,
If you dare to stop my way
From the window I will throw you.
SECOND SERVANT. Fly, Clotaldo!
CLOTALDO. Woe to thee,
In thy pride so powerful seeming,
Without knowing thou art dreaming!
[Exit.
SECOND SERVANT. Think . . . .
SIGISMUND. Away! don't trouble me.
SECOND SERVANT. He could not the King deny.
SIGISMUND. Bade to do a wrongful thing
He should have refused the King;
And, besides, his prince was I.
SECOND SERVANT. 'Twas not his affair to try
If the act was wrong or right.
SIGISMUND. You're indifferent, black or white,
Since so pertly you reply.
CLARIN. What the Prince says is quite true,
What you do is wrong, I say.