Lucio. Ha! Regent. Go, bring her, Captain. [Exit Cesario. List to me, Lucio: listen, brother dear, First playmate-child, tending whose innocence Myself learned motherhood. Shall I deny Youth to be loved and follow after love? There is a love breaks like a morning beam On the husht novice kneeling by his arms; And worse there is, whose kisses strangle love, Whose feet take hold of hell. My Lucio, Follow not that! Follow not that! Lucio. Why, who—who hath maligned The Countess? The Countess? Regent Not maligned. Lucetta, here— Lucio. Lucetta! Curse Lucetta and her tongue! Am I a child, to be nagged by waiting-maids? Am I a child, to be nagged by waiting-maids? Regent. No, but a man, and shall weigh evidence. Lucio. But I'll not hear it! If her viper tongue Can kill, why kill it must. But send me a man, And I will smite his mouth—ay, slit his tongue— That dares defame the Countess! Can kill, why kill it must. But send me a man, And I will smite his mouth—ay, slit his tongue— That dares defame the Countess! Regent. Stay: she comes. [Enter the Countess Fulvia, Cesario attending. Madam, the reason wherefore you are summoned No doubt you guess, from a rude earlier call Our Captain paid you. Certain practices, Which you may force me name, are charged upon you On testimony you may force me call And may with freedom question. [Enter the Countess Fulvia, Cesario attending. Madam, the reason wherefore you are summoned No doubt you guess, from a rude earlier call
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