None so deaf as who won't hear
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— Assim deve ser. Diz a escriptura que não ha peior surdo do que aquelle que não quer ouvir.
“So it must be. Scripture says there is no worse deaf man than he who will not hear.”
Loredano parries with Scripture: so it must be — the Bible says there is no worse deaf man than he who will not hear.
The Italian answers a demand for plain speech with a proverb about willful deafness — implying Álvaro understands perfectly and only pretends not to. Cloaking the taunt in Scripture is of a piece with Loredano's habit of hiding a blade inside something respectable.
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