To none but you could I ...

Lur. No truce, Tiburzio!

Tib. Luria, you know the peril imminent

On Pisa,—that you have us in the toils,

Us her last safeguard, all that intercepts

The rage of her implacablest of foes

From Pisa: if we fall to-day, she falls.

Though Lucca will arrive, yet, 't is too late.

You have so plainly here the best of it,

That you must feel, brave soldier as you are,