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LUDOVIQUO.

Perhaps he'll soon return.

GAUVINO (significantly).

He'll ne'er return.—We'll see him here no more.

LUDOVIQUO.

Why say'st thou so ?

GAUVINO.

I have my reasons: he hath been too prosperous.

PIETRO.

And what of that?

GAUVINO.

The power that has upheld him

Will, when his term is up, dire reck'ning take.

PIETRO.

What dost thou mean?

GAUVINO.

Nay, if thou canst not guess,

I will not utter more.

LUDOVIQUO.

Ha! yonder Gomez comes!

PIETRO.

Gomez, indeed! (All rising to meet him.)

LUDOVIQUO.

His Lord is then return'd.