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THE FOOL'S REVENGE.
Now to seek out Bertuccio. and tell him
The danger she has 'scaped, and thank the saints
That made me her preserver.
[Exit Dell' Aquila, R. Enter cautiously, L. U. E., Bertuccio, Manfredi, Ascolti, Ordelaffi, and Torelli, with Servants carrying ladders.
MANFREDI.
Softly, you knaves! with velvet tread, like tigers—
BERTUCCIO.
Say rather, "cats."
[A light appears at the window, L. 2 E.
TORELLI.
Which is the balcony?
BERTUCCIO (pointing).
That! I have noted in this summer weather
The window 's left unbarred.
ASCOLTI.
Ha! there 's a light!
If she were stirring!
BERTUCCIO.
What an' if she were?
A sudden spring,—a cloak flung o'er her head;
If she have time to scream, you are but bunglers.
MANFREDI.
My cloak will serve. [Takes it off.
ASCOLTI.
If she alarm the house
It might go hard with us.
