_Sanaz._ You shall have further cause To assure you of my faith and zeal to serve you: And when I have committed to your trust (Presuming still on your retentive silence) A secret of no less importance than My honour, nay, my head, it will confirm What value you hold with me. _Giov._ Pray you, believe, sir, What you deliver to me shall be lock'd up In a strong cabinet, of which you yourself Shall keep the key; for here I pawn my honour, Which is the best security I can give yet, It shall not be discover'd. _Sanaz._ This assurance Is more than I with modesty could demand From such a paymaster; but I must be sudden; And, therefore, to the purpose. Can your excellence, In your imagination, conceive On what design, or whither, the duke's will Commanded me hence last night? _Giov._ No, I assure you; And it had been a rudeness to inquire Of that I was not call'd to. _Sanaz._ Grant me hearing, And I will make you truly understand It only did concern you. _Giov._ Me, my lord! _Sanaz._ You, in your present state and future fortunes; For both lie at the stake. _Giov._ You much amaze me. Pray you, resolve this riddle. _Sanaz._ You know the duke, If he die issueless, as yet he is, Determines you his heir. _Giov._ It hath pleased his highness Oft to profess so much. _Sanaz._ But say he should Be won to prove a second wife, on whom He may beget a son, how, in a moment, Will all those glorious expectations, which Render you reverenced and remarkable, Be in a moment blasted, howe'er you are His much-loved sister's son! _Giov._ I must bear it With patience, and in me it is a duty That I was born with; and 'twere much unfit For the receiver of a benefit To offer, for his own ends, to prescribe Laws to the giver's pleasure.