I'll crush your head like a snake's
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— Enganais-vos, disse o moço picando o seu cavallo e encostando-se ao italiano, fallo-vos seriamente; sois um infame espião! Mas juro, por Deus, que à primeira palavra que proferirdes, esmago-vos a cabeça como a uma cobra venenosa.
“You are mistaken,” said the young man, spurring his horse and leaning close to the Italian; “I speak to you in earnest: you are a vile spy! But I swear, by God, that at the first word you utter I'll crush your head like a venomous snake's.”
“You are mistaken,” said the young man, spurring his horse and leaning close to the Italian; “I speak to you in earnest: you are a vile spy! But I swear, by God, that at the first word you utter I'll crush your head like a venomous snake's.”
Álvaro's fury boils over into an oath: name the secret and I kill you. The image — crushing a serpent's head — casts Loredano as the venomous thing, and marks the point where the war of hints becomes a death-threat. The chapter's tension has reached its edge.
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