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SCENE 4.1: / AN APARTMENT IN THE CASTLE OF PETRELLA. / ENTER CENCI.
CENCI: / She comes not; yet I left her even now / Vanquished and faint. She knows the penalty / Of her delay: yet what if threats are vain? / Am I not now within Petrella's moat? / Or fear I still the eyes and ears of Rome? / Might I not drag her by the golden hair? / Stamp on her? keep her sleepless till her brain / Be overworn? Tame her with chains and famine? / Less would suffice. Yet so to leave undone / What I most seek! No, 'tis her stubborn will / Which by its own consent shall stoop as low / As that which drags it down. / [ENTER LUCRETIA.] / Thou loathed wretch! / Hide thee from my abhorrence: fly, begone! / Yet stay! Bid Beatrice come hither.