O but for this time, Duke,
Yield to our warning! Let him not depart.
WALLENST.
And why should I not trust him only this time,
Who have always trusted him? What, then, has happen'd
That I should lose my good opinion of him?
In complaisance to your whims, not my own,
I must, forsooth, give up a rooted judgment.
Think not I am a woman. Having trusted him
E'en till today, today too will I trust him.
TERZKY.
Must it be he—he only? Send another.
WALLENST.
It must be he whom I myself have chosen;
He is well fitted for the business. Therefore
I gave it him.
ILLO.
Because he's an Italian—
Therefore is he well fitted for the business!