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Dal . Duke ! Your Highness * private ear—Cosmo . Come , sir ; be brief . ( They step asiddt Dal . The Prince
Giovanni-Cos mo . Wherefore stays he thus ? Giovanni and young Garcia should be here , I ' m anger'd at their stay ! ah ! what has happen'd , That thus aghast you look ? Dal . Giovanni ' s dead ! Cosmo . Who ?—dead ?—who ' s dead ? Dal . Giovanni—Prince Xjiovanni—We ' ve found his body in the forest . Cosmo . And dead ?—utterly ?—the last spark gone Ii Dal . Quite cold I Cosmo . Stand fast!—remain you here . Duchess ( advancing , ) We wait Your Highness' pleasure . Cosmo . I shall join you anon .
Some strange intelligence from distant lands Immmediate audience claims . Duchess , lead on ! { Exeunt all hut Cosmo and 1 Cosmo . Repeat thine horrid news : or if t may be , Correct and qualify—say he is dying , But by a timely aid may yet be saved ! Tell me thou art not in thy proper mind , But do not tell me that my son is dead !
Dal . Would I were mad , or wild with wine , or dreaa But ' tis too true ! Cosmo . How should he die !—what dastards Stood by to see the forest boar ' s fierce tusks Root out his life ? Dal . 'Twas no fierce boar that did it , Nor
wolf—Cosmo . Aha ! death ' s face grows darker I what then Dal , We know not : in the forest ' s depths we found His wild steed , bounding past us , help'd the search , His blood had still some warmth—but he was dead . Cosmo . Art sure ? Dal . Most sure : one huntsman only with me , We could not thence remove him . Cosmo . Lies he there E ' en now ? Dal . He does : the huntsman seated close , With face as white . Near him this broken point , As of a sword-blade Cosmo . Whose is ' t ? Dal . I know not ; But by his side we found his own . Cosmo . Unsheath'd ? Dal . Unaheath'd and stain'd , as tho * he had fought .
Cosmo de * Medici .