Scene III

A council-chamber.

There is no composition in these news That gives them credit.

Indeed, they are disproportion’d; My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.

And mine, two hundred: But though they jump not on a just account⁠— As in these cases, where the aim reports, ’Tis oft with difference⁠—yet do they all confirm A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus.

Nay, it is possible enough to judgment: I do not so secure me in the error, But the main article I do approve In fearful sense.

The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes; So was I bid report here to the state By Signior Angelo.

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