Nor shall thy trust,

Rejoin’d the Count, be vain. Say farther now,

From whence ye came? ... your orders what? ... what force

In Gegio? and if others like yourselves

Are in the field?

The African replied,

We came from Gegio, order’d to secure

This Baron on the way, and seek thee here

To bear thee hence in bonds. A messenger

From Cordoba, whose speed denoted well