MARINA. Of days, since every hour has been the country's. At my too long worn diadem and ring. Let them resume the gewgaws ! MARINA, But for my dignity-I hold it of Oh the tyrants! The whole republic; when the general will In such an hour too! Is manifest, then you shall be answer'd. DOGE. 'Tis the fittest time : MARINA. And Will you not now resent it?-Oh for vengeance! But nothing will advance; no, not a moment. But he, who, had he been enough protected, Might have repaid protection in this moment, Cannot assist his father. DOGE. Nor should do so Against his country, had he a thousand lives Instead of that- They tortured from him. This With all due reverence we retire. May be pure patriotism. I am a woman: (Ereunt the Deputation, etc. To me my husband and my children were Enter an ATTENDANT. Country and home. I loved him—how I loved him! I have scen him pass through such an ordeal, as The old martyrs would have shrunk from: he is goue, The noble dame Marina craves an audience. And I, who would have given my blood for him, Have nought to give but tears! But could I compass DOGE. My time is hers. The retribution of his wrongs !--Well, well; I have sons who shall be men. DOGE. Your grief distracts you. MARINA. I thought I could have borne it, when I saw him Bow'd down by such oppression ; yes, I thought That I would rather look upon his corse Alone, come all the world around me, I Than his prolong'd captivity :-I am punish'd Ain now and evermore. But we will bear it. For that thought now. Would I were in his grave! MARINA. We will; and for the sake of those who are, I must look on him once more. DOGE. Come with me! DOGE. I cannot comfort thee. Is he MARINA. Our bridal bed is now his bier. DOGE. And he is in his shroud ? Come, come, old man! Unto his happiness and mine, save not (Exeunt the DogE and Marisa To be Venetian. Enter BARBAKIGO and LOREDANO. BARBARIGO (to an ATTENDANT). Where is the Doge? ATTENDANT. Imperfect happiness or high ambition, This instant retired hence By some strange destiny, to him proved deadly. With the illustrious lady, his son's widow. The country and the people whom he loved, LOREDANO. The prince of whom he was the elder born, Where? Ard ATTENDANT. To the chamber where the body lies. BARBARIGO. Let us return then. LOREDANO. You forget, you cannot. DOGE. MARINA. MARINA. MARINA. DOGE. DOGE. LOREDANO. DOGE. DOGE. CHIEF OF THE TEX. DOGE. BARBARIGO, To await their coming here, and join them in LOREDANO (aside to BARBARIGO). Now the rich man's hell-fire upon your tongue, Unquench’d, unquenchable! i'll have it torn Nothing but sobs through blood, for this ! Sage signors, 'Twas his own wish that all should be done promptly. I pray ye be not hasıy. Aloud io the others. He answer'd quickly, and must so be answer'd; BARBARIGO. But be human ! See, the Duke comes ! Enter the DOGE. I have obey'd your summons. This proposition to the last, though vainly. CHIEF OF THE TEN. Why would the general vote compel me hither ? We come once more to urge our past request. And I to answer. What? My only answer. CHIEF OF THE TEN. Hear you then the last decree, Your modes of vengeance, nay, poetical, Definitive and absolute! A very Ovid in the art of hating ; DOGE. 'T is thus (although a secondary object, To the pointYet hate has microscopic eyes) to you To the point! I know of old the forms of office, lowe, by way of foil to the more zealous, And gentle preludes to strong acts-Go on! This undesired association in CHIEF OF THE TEX. You are no longer Doge; you are released From your imperial oath as sovereign ; Your ducal robes must be put off; but for Your services, the state allots the appanage Already mention'd in our former congress. All your own private fortune. DOGE. That last clause, I am proud to say, would not enrich the treasury. CHIEF OF THE TEN, Your answer, Francis Foscari? States, siung humanity will rise to check it. If I could have foreseen that my old age You talk but idly. Was prejudicial to the state, the chief Of the republic never would have shown Himself so far ungrateful as to place His own high dignity before his country; But this life having been so many years Not useless to that country, I would tain Have consecrated my last moments to her. But the decree being render'd, I obey. CHIEF OF THE TEN. If you would have the three days named extended, Ile shall be inform'd. We willingly will lengthen them to eight, (Erit Attendant. As sign of our esteem. Not eight hours signor, Nor even eight uinutes. There's the ducal rong. (Taking off his ring and care te will rernit him till the rites are over. And there the ducal diadem. And so Lins return. Tis tine enough tv-morrow. | The Adriatic's tres to wed another. BARBARIGO. LOREDANO. This from you. LOREDANO. DOGE, LOREDANO, BARBARIGO. ATTENDANT. DOGE. DOGE. MEMMO. DOGE. LOREDANO. ATTENDANT. DOGE. CHIEF OF THE TEN. Not till I pass the threshold of these doors. LOREDAXO. Saint Mark's great bell is soon about to toll For his inauguration. To move betimes. Methinks I see amongst you DOGE. A face I know not-Senator! your name, Earth and heaven! You, by your garb, Chief of the Forty. Ye will reverberate this peal; and I Live to hear this !--the first doge who e'er heard Signor, Such sound for his successor! Happier he, I am the son of Marco Memmo. My attainted predecessor, stern Faliero This insult at the least was spared him. Ah! What! Do you regret a traitor ? NOGE. No-I merely Envy the dead. CHIEF OF TYS TEN. My lord, if you indeed (Pointing to the Ten's Deputation. Are bent upon this rash abandonment Prepare or the state's palace, at the least retire To part from hence upon the instant. By the private staircase, which conducts you to4nıls The landing-place of the canal. DOGE. No. 1 [To the Ten. Broad eminence I was invested duke. (To the Servants. The malice of my foes will drive me down them. There is one burthen which I beg you bear There five and thirty years ago was I I never thought to be divorced cxcept A corse—a corse, it might be, fighting for them- But not push'd hence by fellow-citizens. But, come; my son and I will go together- He to his grave, and I to pray for mine. What, thus in public ? I was publicly Elected, and so will I be deposed. Here's my arm! And here my staff: thus propp'd will I go forth. True; but in freedom, DOGE. The people !—There's no people, you well know it, The palace with us? Its old walls, ten times Else you dare not deal thus by them or me. As old as I am, and I'm very old, There is a populace, perhaps, whose looks Have served you, so have I, and I and they May shame you; but they dare not groan nor curse you, Could tell a tale; but I invoke them not Save with their hearts and eyes. To fall upon you! else they would, as erst 'The pillers of stone Dagon's temple on You speak in passion, The Israelite and his Philistine foes. Else You have reason. I have spoken much As you; but I curse not. Adieu, good signors ! More than my wont; it is a foible which May the next duke be better than the present' Was not of mine, but more excuses you, Inasmuch as it shows that I approach The quesent duke is Pascal Malipiero. a dolage which may justify this dced CHIEF OF THE TEX. DOGE. MARINA. MARINA. DOGE. : CHIEF OF THE TEN. CHIEF OF THE TEN. DOGE. LOREDANO. LOREDANO. MARINA. DOGE. DOGE. DOGE. MARINA. DOGE. Of yours, although the law Joes not, nor will. Well, sir ! DOGE. Then it is false, or you are true. For my own part, I credit neither ; 't is An idle legend. You talk wildly, and Had better now be seated, nor as yet Depart. Ah! now you look as look'd my husband! BARBARIGO. He sinks!--support him!-quick-a chair-support him! The bell tolls on !-let's hence-my brain 's on fire! BARBARIGO. I do beseech you, lean upon us ! No! Applying poisons there as antidotes. A sovereign should die standing. My poor boy! Pomp is for princes—I am none !-- That's false, I am, but only to these gates.-Ah! Off with your arms !—That bell ! [The Doge drops down, and dies, LOREDANO. Hark! My God! my God! [The great bell of Saint Mark's tolls. BARBARIGO (to LOREDANO). Behold! your work's completed! CHIEF OF THE TEN. Is there then No aid? Call in assistance ! ATTENDANT. 'Tis all over. The sound! I heard it once, but once before, CHIEF OF THE TEN, And that is five and thirty years ago ; If it be so, at least his obsequies Even then I was not young. Shall be such as befits his name and nation, His rank and his devotion to the duties Of the realm, while his age permitted him To do himself and them full justice. Brethren, Say, shall it not be so ? 'Tis the knell of my poor boy! BARBARIGO. He has not had The misery to die a subject where He reign'd: then let his funeral rites be princely. CHIEF OF THE TEX. All, except LOREDANO, answer. Yes. CHIEF OF THE TEN. Heaven's peace be with lum, I feel a thirst-will no one bring me here MARINA Signors, your pardon : this is mockery. Juggle no more with that poor remnant, which, (A soul by whom you have increased your empire, And I And made your power as proud as was his glory) You banish'd from his palace, and tore down From his high place with such relentless coldness : (The DogE takes a goblet from the hand of LOREDANO. And now, when he can neither know these honours. Nor would accept them if he could, you, signors, I take yours, Loredano, from the hand Purpose, with idle and superfluous pomp, Must fit for such an hour as this. To make a pagcant over what you trampled. A princely funeral will be your reproach, And not his honour. Lady, we revoke not Such pre ani.pathy to poisons, as Our purposes so readily. To bursi if aught of venom touches it. I know it, You bere this gobict, and it is not broken. DOGE. DOGE. MARINA. LOREDANO. DOGE. LOREDANO. CHIEF OF THE TEN. DOGE. MARIYA. CIIIEF OF THE TEN. CHIEF OF THE TEN. MARINA. MARINA. As far as touches torturing the living. APPENDIX. Extrait de l'Histoire de la République de Venise, por Leave him to me; you would have done so for P. Daru, de l'Académie francaise. Tom. 2. His dregs of life, which you have kindly shorten’d: Depuis trente ans, la république n'avait pas déposé It is my last of duties, and may prove les armes. Elle avait acquis les provinces de Brescia, A dreary comfort in my desolation. de Bergame, de Crême, et la principauté de Ravenne. Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, Mais ces guerres continuelles faisaient beaucoup de And the apparel of the grave. malheureux et de mécontents. Le doge François Fos cari, à qui on ne pouvait pardonner d'en avoir été le proDo you moteur, inanifesta une seconde fois, en 1442, et probable Pretend still to this office? ment avec plus de sincérité que la première, l'intention MARINA. d'abdiquer sa dignité. Le conseil s'y refusa encore. On I do, signor. avait exigé de lui le serment de ne plus quitter le dogat. Though his possessions have been all consumed Il était déja avancé dans la vieillesse, conservant cepenIn the state's service, I have still my dowry, dant beaucoup de force de tête et de caractère, et jouisWhich shall be consecrated to his rites, sant de la gloire d'avoir vu la république étendre au loin And those of [She stops with agitation. Les limites de ses domaines pendant son administration. Au milieu de ces prospérités, de grands chagrins vinBest retain it for your children. rent mettre à l'épreuve la fermeté de son ame. Son fils, Jacques Foscari, fut accusé, en 1445, d'avoir Ay, they are fatherless, I thank you. reçu des présents de quelques princes ou seigneurs éiranCHIEF OF THE TEN. gers, notamment, disait-on, du duc de Milan, Philippe We Visconti. C'était non seulement une bassesse, mais une Cannot comply with your request. His relics infraction des lois positives de la république. Shall be exposed with wonted pomp, and follow'd Le conseil des dix traita cette affaire comme s'il se fût Unto their home by the new Doge, not clad agi d'un delit commis par un particulier obscur. L'acAs Doge, but simply as a senator. cusé fut amené devant ses juges, devant le dogc, qui ne crut pas pouvoir s'abstenir de présider le tribunal. Là. il fut interrogé, appliqué à la question,' déclaré coupable, I have heard of murderers, who have interr'd Their victims; but ne'er heard, until this hour, et il entendii, de la bouche de son père, l'arrêt qu le Of so much splendour in hypocrisy condamnait à un banissement perpétuel, et le reléguait O'er those they slew. I've heard of widows' tears à Naples de Romanie, pour y finir ses jours. Alas! I have shed some-always thanks to you! Embarqué sur une galère pour se rendre au lieu de sun exil, il tomba malade à Trieste. Les solicitations du I've heard of heirs in sables—you have left none To the deceased, so you would act the part doge obtinrent, non sans difficulté, qu'on lui assignat und Of such. Well, sirs, your will be done! as one day, autre résidence. Enfin le conseil des dix lui permit de se retirer à Trévise, en lui imposant l'obligation d'y resI trust, Heaven's will be done too! ter sous peine de mort, et de se présenter tous les jours CHIEF OF TIIE TEN. Know you, lady, devant le gouverneur. To whom ye speak, and perils of such specch? Il y était depuis cinq ans, lorsqu'un des chefs du conseil des dix fut assassiné. Les soupcons se portèrent sur lui: I know the former better than yourselves; un de ses domestiques qu'on avait vu à Venise fut arrêté et subit la torture. Les bourreaux ne purent lui arracher 'I'he latter-like yourselves; and can face both. aucun aveu. Ce terrible tribunal se fit amener le main, Wish you more funerals ? le soumit aux mèmes épreuves ; il résista à tous les tour. Ilecd not her rash words! ments, ne cessant d'attester son innocence;? mais on ne Hor circumstances must excuse her bearing. 1 E datagli la corda per avere da lui la verità ; chiamato il consiglio de' dieci colla giunta, nel quale cu messer lo dogo, tu We will not note them down. sentenziato.--(Marin Samuto Vite de' Duchi, F. Foscari) BARBARIGO (turning to LOREDANO, who is writing upon ni consiglio do direi di confinarlo in vita alla Canen. (Ibisl.) 2 E fu tormentato ne mai confessd cosa alcuna, pure parve his tablets). Voici le texte du jugernent: "Cum Jacobus Foscari per oc What art thou writing, casionem percussionis et mortis Hennola: Donati funt retentus With such an earnest brow, upon thy tablets ? et examinatus, et propter significationes, testificationes, et scripturas quæ habentur contra eum, clare apparet ipsum esse LOREDANO (printing to the Doge's body). reum criminis prælicti, sed propter incantationes, et verba que That he has paid me!' sibi reperta funt, de quibus existit indicia manifesta, viidetur propter obstinatam mentem sunin, non esse possibile extrahera What debt did he owe you? ab ipso illam veritatem, qua cintra esi per scripturas et pot testificationes, quoniam in fune aliquam nec vocem, nec geni LOREDANO, tum, sed solum intra derites voces ipse videtur et auditur intra A long and just cne; nature's debt and mine. so loqui, etc. ... Tamen non est standum in istis terminis, [Curtain falls. propter bonorem status nostri et pro multis respectibus, pra sertim quod reximen nostrum orcupatur in hac re et quin in terolictum est amplius progredere: vndit pars quad dictus ja 1 "L'ha pagata." A his:orical fact. See the History of cobus Foscari, propter ea que habentur de illo, mittator in Venica by P Daru page 411, vol. ii. confinium in civitate Canea," etc. Notice sur le proces de MARINA. BARBARIGO. CHIEF OF THE TEX. CHIEF OF THE TEN. |