[Aside to the DUKE.]
You must not call him that. He did not betray. The proof is this—that he has come to save you.
DUKE.
And so make my debt to him a means of reaching you;—but I would not accept my life from hands unclean with treachery.
PAUL.
There's not a drop of traitor's blood within my veins!
DUKE.
Yet you signed the warrant for my arrest.
PAUL
Then another hand than mine—unknown to me—filled in your name.