This chapter opens with a soliloquy by the Duke of Mantua, in which he tells his wife that he has ordered his men to build a bath for his wife. He tells her that he wants her to bathe with him, but she refuses, saying that the bath is too personal for her comfort. He asks her to come and wash him, and she says that she has planned to do so, but that her husband's body is so hot that she cannot even wash him. She tells him that he must have scars from war, and he says that his back is scarred from all the fighting. She asks him to scrub her skin off, and when he does, she tells him to raise her leg. He does, and they bathe together.