I 'm proud: our people have been pacified,

Really I know not how—

Pol. By truthfulness.

D'O. Exactly; that shows I had naught to do

With pacifying them. Our foreign perils

Also exceed my means to stay: but here

'T is otherwise, and my pride 's piqued. Count Tende

Completes a full year's absence: would you, madam,

Have the old monarch back, his mistress back,

His measures back? I pray you, act upon