_I. Ber_. Even so. 180 My object is to make your cause end well, And not to push myself to power. Experience, Some skill, and your own choice, had marked me out To act in trust as your commander, till Some worthier should appear: if I have found such As you yourselves shall own more worthy, think you That I would hesitate from selfishness, And, covetous of brief authority, Stake our deep interest on my single thoughts, Rather than yield to one above me in 190 All leading qualities? No, Calendaro, Know your friend better; but you all shall judge. Away! and let us meet at the fixed hour. Be vigilant, and all will yet go well. _Cal_. Worthy Bertuccio, I have known you ever Trusty and brave, with head and heart to plan What I have still been prompt to execute. For my own part, I seek no other Chief; What the rest will decide, I know not, but I am with YOU, as I have ever been, 200 In all our undertakings. Now farewell, Until the hour of midnight sees us meet. [_Exeunt_. ACT III. SCENE I.--_Scene, the Space between the Canal and the Church of San Giovanni e San Paolo. An equestrian Statue before it.--A Gondola lies in the Canal at some distance._ _Enter the_ DOGE _alone, disguised_.