Answer that;
It is your province.
[_To the Servants_.
--Sirs, bestir yourselves:
There is one burthen which I beg you bear
With care, although 'tis past all farther harm--
But I will look to that myself.

_Bar._ He means
The body of his son.

_Doge_. And call Marina,
My daughter!

_Enter_ MARINA.

_Doge_. Get thee ready, we must mourn
Elsewhere.

_Mar._ And everywhere.

_Doge_. True; but in freedom, 210
Without these jealous spies upon the great.
Signers, you may depart: what would you more?
We are going; do you fear that we shall bear
The palace with us? Its _old_ walls, ten times
As _old_ as I am, and I'm very old,
Have served you, so have I, and I and they
Could tell a tale; but I invoke them not
To fall upon you! else they would, as erst
The pillars of stone Dagon's temple on
The Israelite and his Philistine foes. 220
Such power I do believe there might exist
In such a curse as mine, provoked by such
As you; but I curse not. Adieu, good Signers!
May the next Duke be better than the present!

_Lor._ The _present_ Duke is Paschal Malipiero.

_Doge_. Not till I pass the threshold of these doors.

_Lor._ Saint Mark's great bell is soon about to toll
For his inauguration.

_Doge_. Earth and Heaven!
Ye will reverberate this peal; and I
Live to hear this!--the first Doge who e'er heard 230
Such sound for his successor: happier he,
My attainted predecessor, stern Faliero--
This insult at the least was spared him.

_Lor._ What!
Do you regret a traitor?

_Doge_. No--I merely
Envy the dead.

_Chief of the Ten_. My Lord, if you indeed
Are bent upon this rash abandonment
Of the State's palace, at the least retire
By the private staircase, which conducts you towards
The landing-place of the canal.

_Doge_. No. I
Will now descend the stairs by which I mounted 240
To sovereignty--the Giants' Stairs, on whose
Broad eminence I was invested Duke.
My services have call