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Scena Prima.
[Enter _Fernando_, and _Michael_]
Fernando:
The Senate is inform'd at full.
Michael:
_Gonzalo_ Dreams not of my arrival yet.
Fernando:
Nor thinks 'Tis possible his plots can be discover'd: He fats himself with hopes of Crowns, and Kingdoms, 286] And laughs securely, to imagine how He means to gull all but himself: when truly, None is so grosly gull'd as he.
Michael:
There was never A more arch villain.
Fernando:
Peace, the Senate comes.
[Enter _Porphicio_, _Pos._ Senators, and _Gaspero_, Attend]
Porphycio:
How closely Treason cloaks it self in forms Of Civil honesty!
Possenne:
And yet how palpably Does heaven reveal it!
Fernando:
Gracious Lords.
Gaspero:
The Emba.s.sadour, Lord _Paulo Michael_, Advocate To the great Duke of _Venice_.
Porphycio:
You are most welcome, Your Master is a just and n.o.ble Prince.
Michael:
My Lords, he bad me say, that you may know How much he scorns, and (as good Princes ought) Defies base indirect, and G.o.dless treacheries; To your more Sacred wisdomes he refers The punishment due to the false _Gonzalo_, Or else to send him home to _Venice_.
Possenne:
Herein The Duke is royal: _Gaspero_, the Prince Of _Cyprus_ answer'd he would come.
Gaspero:
My Lords, He will not long be absent.
[Enter _Philander_, and _Melitus_]
Porphycio:
You _Fernando_, Have made the State your debter: worthy Prince, We shall be sutors to you for your presence, In hearing, and determining of matters Greatly concerning _Candy_.
Philander:
Fathers, I am A stranger.
Possenne:
Why, the cause, my Lord, concerns A stranger: please you seat your self.
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Philander:
How e're Unfit, since you will have it so, my Lords, You shall command me.
Porphycio:
You my Lord _Fernando_, With the Amba.s.sador, withdraw a while.
Fernando:
My Lords, we shall.
[Ex.
Possenne:
Melitus, and the Secretary, Give notice to _Gonzalo_, that the Senate Requires his presence.
[Ex. _Gas._ and _Mel._
[Enter _Ca.s.silane_, and _Arca_]
Philander:
What concerns the business?
Porphycio:
