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ISOLANI.

Seize it, friend! Seize it! The hand which in that post

Plac'd you, is strong enough to keep you there,
Spite of the Emperor and his Ministers!

ILLO.

Ay, if we would but so consider it!—

If we would all of us consider it so!
The Emperor gives us nothing; from the Duke
Comes all—whate'er we hope, whate'er we have.

ISOLANI (to Illo).

My noble brother! did I tell you how

The Duke will satisfy my creditors?
Will be himself my banker for the future,
Make me once more a creditable man!———
And this is now the third time, think of that!
This kingly-minded man has rescued me
From absolute ruin, and restor'd my honour.

ILLO.

O that his power but kept pace with his wishes!

Why, friend! he'd give the whole world to his soldiers.
But at Vienna, brother!—there's the grievance!—
What politic schemes do they not lay to shorten
His arm, and where they can, to clip his pinions.
Then these new dainty requisitions! these,
Which this same Questenberg brings hither!———

BUTLER.

⁠Ay!

Those requisitions of the Emperor,———