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Exhausts its power. Unskill'd to earn such gifts,
I may not wear them.—Yonder comes Rovani,
A noble soldier; stay and learn from him
The story of the war. Word-bound he is not:
He'll tell it willingly.

(Rovani, who has appeared at the gate, during the latter part of their discourse, observing them suspiciously, now comes forward.)

TORTONA.

No, no! I am in haste, farewell, farewell!

[Exit with his followers.

LUDOVIQUO.

He goes, I trow, less grandly than he came.

GAUVINO.

Such hasty steps, indeed, somewhat derange

The order of his high nobility.

LUDOVIQUO.

Yet, pompous as he is, I have been told

He is no coward,

GAUVINO.

I suspect him much.

LUDOVIQUO.

But thou art wrong; although he doth assume

Those foolish airs of martial gallantry,
He is as brave as others.