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ILLO.

This is the thanks the Duke gets for his

partiality to Italians and foreigners.—Us Bohemians
he holds for little better than dullards—nothing
pleases him but what's outlandish.

TERTSKY. (in extreme embarrassment, to the Commanders,
who at Illo's words gave a sudden start,
as preparing to resent them.

It is the wine that speaks, and not his reason.

Attend not to him, I entreat you.

ISOLANI. (with a bitter laugh.)

Wine invents nothing: it only tattles.

ILLO.

He who is not with me is against me. Your

tender consciences! Unless they can slip out by
a back-door, by a puny proviso———

TERTSKY. (interrupting him.)

He is stark mad—don't listen to him!

ILLO. (raising his voice to the highest pitch.)

Unless they can slip out by a proviso.—What

of the proviso? The devil take this proviso!

MAX.(has his attention roused, and looks again into the paper.)

What is there here then of such perilous

import? You make me curious—I must look closer
at it.

TERTSKY. (in a low voice to Illo.)

What are you doing, Illo? You are ruining us.

TIEFENBACH. (to Kolatto.)

Ay, ay! I observ'd, that before we sat down

to supper, it was read differently.

GOETZ.