se lips forever!
Nor all your racks, your engines, or your wheels,
Shall force a groan away, that you may guess at!

_[Crosses, M._

_Duke._ Name your conditions.

_Jaf._ (R.) For myself, full pardon,
Besides, the lives of two-and-twenty friends,
Whose names I have enrolled--Nay, let their crimes
Be ne'er so monstrous, I must have the oaths,
And sacred promise, of this reverend council,
That, in a full assembly of the senate,
The thing I ask be ratified. Swear this,
And I'll unfold the secrets of your danger.

_Duke._ Propose the oath.

_Jaf._ (C.) By all the hopes
You have of peace and happiness hereafter,
Swear!

_Duke._ We swear.

_Jaf._ And, as ye keep the oath,
May you and your posterity be blessed,
Or cursed, forever!

_Duke._ Else be cursed forever

_Jaf._ Then here's the list, and with't, the full disclosure

_[Delivers two papers to the Officer, who delivers them to
the Duke._

Of all that threaten you.
Now, Fate, thou hast caught me!

_Duke._ Give order, that all diligent search be made
To seize these men--their characters are public.
The paper intimates their rendezvous
To be at the house of the famed Grecian courtesan,
Called Aquilina; see that place secured.
You, Jaffier, must with patience bear till morning
To be our prisoner.

_Jaf._ Would the chains of death
Had bound me fast, ere I had known this minute!

_Duke._ Captain, withdraw your prisoner.

_Jaf._ Sir, _[To Officer,]_ if possible,
Lead me where my own thoughts themselves may lose me;
Where I may doze out, what I've left of life;--
Forget myself, and this day's guilt and falsehood.
Cruel remembrance! how shall I appease thee?

_ [Exit, guarded, R_

Officer. _[Without.]_ More traitors! room, room, room,
make room there!

_Duke._ How's this?
The treason's
Already at the doors!

_Enter Officer and Captain, L._

Officer. My lords, more traitors!
Seized in the very act of consultation:
Furnished with arms and instruments of mischief.--
Bring in the prisoners!

_Enter Spinosa, Elliot, Theodore, Durand, Mezzana,
Renault, and Pierre, in Chains, L._

_Pierre._ (L.) You, my lords and fathers,
(As you are pleased to call yourselves,) of Venice;