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LEONI.

Kind greeting to you all: I am right glad

To see my friends and native walls again.

2nd noble.

You're come upon us in a stirring time.

1st noble.

Tell him at once Castruccio is our prisoner.

2nd noble.

You're over hasty; for the count may be

One of Castruccio's partisans.

1st noble.

Arrezi always liked the strongest side,

And hence betrothed his daughter to Castruccio.

LEONI.

What, to my cousin—to the fair Bianca?

1st noble.

You do not look as if you liked the news.

2nd noble.

Will you go with us to the Senate-house?

Your uncle will be there.

LEONI.

As yet I am too new to join your councils.

2nd noble.

We may not loiter, even now awaits

The envoy sent from Florence.

LEONI.

Make ye what terms ye can—secure yourselves:

The Florentines will gladly aid your cause.
They hate Castruccio—hate, because they fear.

2nd noble.

We are too late: farewell, we meet anon.[Exeunt.