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[Enter ISABELLA and MARIANA.]

ISABELLA.

To speak so indirectly I am loath;

I would say the truth; but to accuse him so,

That is your part: yet I am advis’d to do it;

He says, to ‘vailfull purpose.

MARIANA.

Be ruled by him.

ISABELLA.

Besides, he tells me that, if peradventure

He speak against me on the adverse side,

I should not think it strange; for ‘tis a physic

That’s bitter to sweet end.

MARIANA.

I would Friar Peter.—

ISABELLA.

O, peace! the friar is come.

[Enter FRIAR PETER.]

PETER.

Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,

Where you may have such vantage on the duke

He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets sounded;

The generous and gravest citizens

Have hent the gates, and very near upon

The duke is entering; therefore, hence, away.

[Exeunt.]