Mar. What is it? speak. Why is the house in black?
What means it? say.
Liv.Nay, let it not be me
To tell thee.
Mar.Thinkest thou my fancy’s horror
Is gentler than thy bluntest tale? Speak quickly.
Liv. ’Twas on his own confession of connivance
In John Palicio’s shelter and escape,
My father put him from his place, and sent him
To answer to this charge before the king.