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THE PICCOLOMINI, OR THE
SECOND SERVANT.
hum. A chamber is a chamber; what much can
the place signify in the affair?
SENI (with gravity).
Nothing! But yet in every earthly thing
First and most principal is place and time.
FIRST SERVANT (to the Second).
must let him have his own will.
SENI (counts the chairs, half in a loud, half in
a low voice, till he comes to eleven, which he
repeats).
Twelve! twelve signs hath the zodiac: five and seven,
The holy numbers, include themselves in twelve.
SECOND SERVANT.
I should like to know that now.
SENI.
The ten commandments.
SECOND SERVANT.
SENI.
Is