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