Val. Please it your grace, there is a messenger

That stays to bear my letters to my friends,

And I am going to deliver them.

55 Duke. Be they of much import?

Val. The [tenour] of them doth but signify

My health and happy being at your court.

Duke. Nay then, no matter; stay with me awhile;

I am to break with thee of some affairs

60 That touch me near, wherein thou must be secret.

’Tis not unknown to thee that I have sought