Hired one; our Envoy Contarini too.
"Now for the thing; no sooner the decree
Gone forth,—'t is four-and-twenty hours ago,—
Than Acciaiuoli and Panciatichi,
Old friends, indeed compatriots of the man,
Being pitched on as the couple properest
To intimate the sentence yesternight,
Were closeted ere cock-crow with the Count.
They both report their efforts to dispose
The unhappy nobleman for ending well,