BEATRICE:
My Lord, I pray excuse us;
We will retire; my mother is not well:
She seems quite overcome with this strange horror.
[EXEUNT LUCRETIA AND BEATRICE.]
SAVELLA:
Can you suspect who may have murdered him? _65
BERNARDO:
I know not what to think.
SAVELLA:
Can you name any
Who had an interest in his death?
BERNARDO:
Alas!
I can name none who had not, and those most
Who most lament that such a deed is done;
My mother, and my sister, and myself. _70
SAVELLA:
’Tis strange! There were clear marks of violence.
I found the old man’s body in the moonlight
Hanging beneath the window of his chamber,
Among the branches of a pine: he could not
Have fallen there, for all his limbs lay heaped _75
And effortless; ’tis true there was no blood…
Favour me, Sir; it much imports your house
That all should be made clear; to tell the ladies
That I request their presence.
[EXIT BERNARDO.]
[ENTER GUARDS, BRINGING IN MARZIO.]
GUARD:
We have one.