oredano,
Pursue hereditary hate too far.

_Lor._ How far?

_Bar._ To extermination.

_Lor._ When they are
Extinct, you may say this.--Let's in to council. 20

_Bar._ Yet pause--the number of our colleagues is not
Complete yet; two are wanting ere we can
Proceed.

_Lor._ And the chief judge, the Doge?

_Bar._ No--he,
With more than Roman fortitude, is ever
First at the board in this unhappy process
Against his last and only son.[38]

_Lor._ True--true--
His _last_.

_Bar._ Will nothing move you?

_Lor._ _Feels he_, think you?

_Bar._ He shows it not.

_Lor._ I have marked _that_--the wretch!

_Bar._ But yesterday, I hear, on his return
To the ducal chambers, as he passed the threshold 30
The old man fainted.

_Lor._ It begins to work, then.

_Bar._ The work is half your own.

_Lor._ And should be _all_ mine--
My father and my uncle are no more.

_Bar._ I have read their epitaph, which says they died
By poison.[39]

_Lor._ When the Doge declared that he
Should never deem himself a sovereign till
The death of Peter Loredano, both
The brothers sickened shortly:--he _is_ Sovereign.

_Bar._ A wretched one.

_Lor._ What should they be who make
Orphans?

_Bar._ But _did_ the Doge make you so?

_Lor._ Yes. 40

_Bar._ What solid proofs?

_Lor._ When Princes set themselves
To work in secret, proofs and process are
Alike made difficult; but I have such
Of the first, as shall make the second needless.

_Bar._ But you will move by law?

_Lor._ By all the laws
Which he would leave us.

_Bar._ They are such in this
Our state as render retribution easier
Than 'mongst remoter nations. Is it true
That you have written in your books of commerce,
(The wealthy practice of our highest nobles) 50
"Doge Foscari, my debtor for the deaths
Of Marco and Pietro Loredano,
My sire and uncle?"[40]

_Lor._ It is written thus.