Between our two selves, Duke of Durazzo, tell me first why, by your infamous manoeuvring, you aided your uncle, the Cardinal of Perigord, to hinder the coronation of my brother, and so led him on, since he had no royal prerogative of his own, to his miserable end?
Oh, make no attempt to deny it.

Here is the letter sealed with your seal; in secret you wrote it, but it accuses you in public.
Then why, after bringing us hither to avenge our brother's death, of which you beyond all doubt were the cause,--why did you suddenly turn to the queen's party and march against our town of Aquila, daring to raise an army against our faithful subjects?
You hoped, traitor, to make use of us as a footstool to mount the throne withal, as soon as you were free from every other rival.

Then you would but have awaited our departure to kill the viceroy we should have left in our place, and so seize the kingdom.

But this time your foresight has been at fault.

There is yet another crime worse than all the rest, a crime of high treason, which I shall remorselessly punish.