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A P E R I O D P L A Y
LONDON
A. H. BULLEN
1905
BORGIA
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ACT I
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SCENE I
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An apartment of the Vatican: at the further end the door of the Treasury by which the Lord Cardinal Casanova is seated.
The Lord Alexander VI. and an Envoy from Naples.
The Pope is seated; from time to time he plunges his hands into a coffer of pearls, letting the pearls stream through his fingers.
ALEXANDER.
All are for her! Each an epitome
Of her—the very skin of them her own,
Our Pearl above all others. So your monarch
Will mate his nephew with her?
ENVOY.
He consents, Holiness,
Having o’erlooked the letter
Giovanni, lord of Pesaro, has written
In affirmation of her virgin state—
The fault being his.
ALEXANDER.
This sorry Milanese!
He raves with spite and proves himself a man
By foul detraction of her family.
We chuckle at the weakling. He may hoot!
Your Don Alfonso is a noble lad,
A girl’s new phœnix....
But your master pauses
To give his only daughter to my son?