This scene takes place in a room in the Duchess's palace. Bosola and Castruchio enter, bantering about Castruchio's ambition to be a great courtier. Bosola is exercising his usual melancholic/choleric manner, talking nonsensically, and Castruchio is playing along. An old lady enters, and Bosola engages her in an insulting banter about her appearance. After a long speech about the diseased and transitory nature of life, Bosola tells Castruchio his wife has gone to Rome, and tells Castruchio and the old lady to go to the wells at Lucca; he has work to do. Castruchio and the old lady exit. Bosola says he suspects the Duchess is pregnant and he hatches a plot to disclose her pregnancy with the first apricots of the spring.
Antonio and Delio enter, talking together aside. Antonio discloses.....
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