Con. I stay, your grace,—why should I go? My father

Hath bid me hear thee: and ’tis nought to me.

Say what thou wouldst: speak on, nor be officious

To suit thy meaning to me, for there’s nothing

I can believe or doubt.

Ph.O, Constance, think not

That could I end thy sorrow by denial

Of what thou hast heard, I would not. All is true.

My kindest office is to unmask the ill

That this ill hath prevented, and to show thee