Enter Isabella in her night-gown, as to bedward, with lights, after her,
Count Lodovico, Giovanni, Guidantonio, and others waiting on her: she
kneels down as to prayers, then draws the curtain of the picture, does
three reverences to it, and kisses it thrice; she faints, and will not
suffer them to come near it; dies; sorrow expressed in Giovanni, and in
Count Lodovico. She is conveyed out solemnly.
Brach. Excellent! then she 's dead.
Conj. She 's poisoned
By the fumed picture. 'Twas her custom nightly,
Before she went to bed, to go and visit
Your picture, and to feed her eyes and lips
On the dead shadow: Doctor Julio,
Observing this, infects it with an oil,
And other poison'd stuff, which presently
Did suffocate her spirits.
Brach. Methought I saw
Count Lodowick there.
Conj. He was; and by my art
I find he did most passionately dote
Upon your duchess. Now turn another way,
And view Camillo's far more politic fate.
Strike louder, music, from this charmed ground,
To yield, as fits the act, a tragic sound!
The Second Dumb Show
Enter Flamineo, Marcello, Camillo, with four more as captains: they drink
healths, and dance; a vaulting horse is brought into the room; Marcello
and two more whispered out of the room, while Flamineo and Camillo
strip themselves into their shirts, as to vault; compliment who shall
begin; as Camillo is about to vault, Flamineo pitcheth him upon his
neck, and, with the help of the rest, writhes his neck about; seems to
see if it be broke, and lays him folded double, as 'twere under the
horse; makes show to call for help; Marcello comes in, laments; sends
for the cardinal and duke, who comes forth with armed men; wonders at
the act; commands the body to be carried home; apprehends Flamineo,
Marcello, and the rest, and go, as 'twere, to apprehend Vittoria.
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