Breaks in on our deliberations?

_Bar._ No,
That's not the cause; you saw the prisoner's state.

_Lor._ And had he not recovered?

_Bar._ To relapse
Upon the least renewal.

_Lor._ 'Twas not tried.

_Bar._ 'Tis vain to murmur; the majority 320
In council were against you.

_Lor._ Thanks to _you_, sir,
And the old ducal dotard, who combined
The worthy voices which o'er-ruled my own.

_Bar._ I am a judge; but must confess that part
Of our stern duty, which prescribes the Question,[47]
And bids us sit and see its sharp infliction,
Makes me wish--

_Lor._ What?

_Bar._ That _you_ would _sometimes_ feel,
As I do always.

_Lor._ Go to, you're a child,
Infirm of feeling as of purpose, blown
About by every breath, shook[48] by a sigh, 330
And melted by a tear--a precious judge
For Venice! and a worthy statesman to
Be partner in my policy.

_Bar._ He shed
No tears.

_Lor._ He cried out twice.

_Bar._ A Saint had done so,
Even with the crown of Glory in his eye,
At such inhuman artifice of pain
As was forced on him; but he did not cry[az]
For pity; not a word nor groan escaped him,
And those two shrieks were not in supplication,
But wrung from pangs, and followed by no prayers. 340

_Lor._ He muttered many times between his teeth,
But inarticulately.[49]

_Bar._ That I heard not:
You stood more near him.

_Lor._ I did so.

_Bar._ Methought,
To my surprise too, you were touched with mercy,
And were the first to call out for assistance
When he was failing.

_Lor._ I believed that swoon
His last.

_Bar._ And have I not oft heard thee name
His and his father's death your nearest wish?

_Lor._ If he dies innocent, that is to say,
With his guilt unavowed, he'll be lamented. 350

_Bar._ What, wouldst thou slay his memory?

_Lor._ Wouldst thou have
His state descend to his children, as it must,
If he die unattainted?

_Bar._