[_Puts plate on table._ ELISABETTA. Filippo! LADY GIOVANNA (_COUNT leads her to table_). Will you not eat with me, my lord? COUNT. I cannot, Not a morsel, not one morsel. I have broken My fast already. I will pledge you. Wine! Filippo, wine! [_Sits near table; FILIPPO brings flask, fills the COUNT’S goblet, then LADY GIOVANNA’S; ELISABETTA stands at the back of LADY GIOVANNA’S chair._ COUNT. It is but thin and cold, Not like the vintage blowing round your castle. We lie too deep down in the shadow here. Your ladyship lives higher in the sun. [_They pledge each other and drink._ LADY GIOVANNA. If I might send you down a flask or two Of that same vintage? There is iron in it. It has been much commended as a medicine. I give it my sick son, and if you be Not quite recover’d of your wound, the wine Might help you. None has ever told me yet The story of your battle and your wound. FILIPPO (_coming forward_). I can tell you, my lady, I can tell you. ELISABETTA. Filippo! will you take the word out of your master’s own mouth? FILIPPO. Was it there to take? Put it there, my lord. COUNT. Giovanna, my dear lady, in this same battle We had been beaten—they were ten to one. The trumpets of the fight had echo’d down, I and Filippo here had done our best, And, having passed unwounded from the field, Were seated sadly at a fountain side, Our horses grazing by us, when a troop, Laden with booty and with a flag of ours Ta’en in the fight—— FILIPPO. Ay, but we fought for it back, And kill’d—— ELISABETTA. Filippo! COUNT. A troop of horse—— FILIPPO. Five hundred! COUNT. Say fifty! FILIPPO. And we kill’d ’em by the score! ELISABETTA. Filippo! FILIPPO. Well, well, well! I bite my tongue. COUNT. We may have left their fifty less by five. However, staying not to count how many, But anger’d at their flaunting of our flag, We mounted, and we dashed into the heart of ’em. I wore the lady’s chaplet round my neck; It served me for a blessed rosary. I am sure that more than one brave fellow owed His death to the charm in it. ELISABETTA. Hear that, my lady!