_Atten._ My Prince! _Doge_. No Prince-- 200 There are the princes of the Prince! [_Pointing to the Ten's Deputation_ --Prepare To part from hence upon the instant. _Chief of the Ten_. Why So rashly? 'twill give scandal. _Doge_ (_to the Ten_). Answer that; It is your province. [_To the Servants_. --Sirs, bestir yourselves: There is one burthen which I beg you bear With care, although 'tis past all farther harm-- But I will look to that myself. _Bar._ He means The body of his son. _Doge_. And call Marina, My daughter! _Enter_ MARINA. _Doge_. Get thee ready, we must mourn Elsewhere. _Mar._ And everywhere. _Doge_. True; but in freedom, 210 Without these jealous spies upon the great. Signers, you may depart: what would you more? We are going; do you fear that we shall bear The palace with us? Its _old_ walls, ten times As _old_ as I am, and I'm very old, Have served you, so have I, and I and they Could tell a tale; but I invoke them not To fall upon you! else they would, as erst The pillars of stone Dagon's temple on The Israelite and his Philistine foes. 220 Such power I do believe there might exist In such a curse as mine, provoked by such As you; but I curse not. Adieu, good Signers! May the next Duke be better than the present! _Lor._ The _present_ Duke is Paschal Malipiero. _Doge_. Not till I pass the threshold of these doors. _Lor._ Saint Mark's great bell is soon about to toll For his inauguration. _Doge_. Earth and Heaven! Ye will reverberate this peal; and I Live to hear this!--the first Doge who e'er heard 230 Such sound for his successor: happier he, My attainted predecessor, stern Faliero-- This insult at the least was spared him. _Lor._ What! Do you regret a traitor? _Doge_. No--I merely Envy the dead. _Chief of the Ten_. My Lord, if you indeed Are bent upon this rash abandonment Of the State's palace, at the least retire By the private staircase, which conducts you towards The landing-place of the canal.