[70]: Voyez Stendhal, Chroniques italiennes: les Cenci, la Duchesse de Palliano, et toutes les Vies du temps; celle des Borgia, de Bianca Capello, de Vittoria Accoramboni, etc.
[71]:
I would have their bodies
Burnt in a coal pit, with the ventage stopp'd,
That their curs'd smoke might not ascend to heaven;
Or dip the sheets they lie in pitch or sulphur,
Wrap them in't, and then light them as a match;
Or else to boil their bastard to a cullis
And give't his lecherous father to renew
The sin of his back.
[72]:
DUCHESS.
Good comfortable fellow,
Persuade a wretch that's broke upon the wheel
To have all his bones new set: entreat him live
To be executed again. Who must despatch me?
BOSOLA.
Come, be of comfort, I will save your life.
DUCHESS.
Indeed, I have not leisure to tend
So small a business.