The Jewel Merchants | MusicalTheatreResourceCenter

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GUIDO Living, this brain-sick beast will make of you his plaything--and, a little later, his broken, soiled and cast-by plaything. It is therefore necessary that I kill Duke Alessandro. GRACIOSA moves away from him, and GUIDO rises. GRACIOSA And afterward--and afterward you must die just as Tebaldeo died! GUIDO That is the law, madonna. But what he said is true. I am useless to him, a rebellious lackey to be punished. Whether I have his life or no, I am a lost man. GRACIOSA A moment since you were Count Eglamore, whom all our nobles feared-- GUIDO Now there is not a beggar in the kingdom who would change lots with me. But at least I shall first kill this kingdom's lord. He picks up his dagger. GRACIOSA You are a friendless and hunted man, in peril of a dreadful death. But even so, you are not penniless. These jewels here are of great value-- GUIDO laughs, and hangs the pearls about her neck. GUIDO Do you keep them, then. GRACIOSA There is a world outside this kingdom. You have only to make your way through the forest to be out of Tuscany. GUIDO (Coolly reflective.) Perhaps I might escape, going north to Bologna, and then to Venice, which is at war with the Duke-- GRACIOSA I can tell you the path to Bologna. GUIDO But first the Duke must die, because his death saves you.

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