speech in their dumbness, language in their [very] gesture;

they looked [as they] had heard of a world ransomed, or one

destroyed: a notable passion of wonder appeared in them;

but the wisest beholder, that knew no more but seeing,

could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow; but in

the extremity of the one, it must needs be.

Enter another Gentleman.

Here comes a gentleman that [haply] knows more. The

news, Rogero?

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