SCENE 1.

My patience runneth out, so tell me true:

Hath Amidala sign’d the treaty yet?

My lord, with trepidation I report:

The queen hath disappear’d. There was one ship

From small Naboo escap’d our stout blockade.

That treaty shall be sign’d! I will it so.

But ’tis impossible to find the ship.

It lies beyond our range of scope or measure.

Enter DARTH MAUL in beam with DARTH SIDIOUS.

For thy weak instruments, perhaps, but not,

I tell thee truly, Viceroy, for a Sith.

Behold my Sith apprentice: Darth Maul he.

Your lost ship shall be swiftly found by him.

[Exeunt Darth Sidious and Darth Maul from beam.

Oft double is a thing that one would wish:

A double blessing is a boon, indeed,

A double meaning renders one word two,

A double-edgèd sword may cut both ways,

A double honor is a monarch’s gift.

But what is this when evil doubl’d is?

’Tis then that one hath trouble doubl’d, too.

This deal is one that we should have declin’d,

For now we two are in a double bind.

[Exeunt.