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The worshipful Lord Cardinal is coming;

I have announced you. The ambassadors

Had taken leave.

[Examining the sword in the hands of Messer Ercole.

By Hercules—your pardon,

Yet by your name, as if it were divine—

This queen of swords is warlike, not of peace

In its adornment as a legate’s sword ...

A legate, tamquam pacis angelus, In Holy Father’s phrase. O sirs, the shame That such a soldier—what condottiere In Italy would match our Cardinal— Is wasted on the Church.