ALB. Then you must call, for so I said I would. CAR. Maria. MARIA. My Carracus, are you so soon return'd? I see you'll keep your promise. CAR. Who would not do so, having pass'd it thee, Cannot be fram'd of aught but treachery: Fairest, descend, that by our hence departing We may make firm the bliss of our content. MARIA. Is your friend Albert with you? ALB. Yes, and your servant, honoured lady. MARIA. Hold me from falling, Carracus. [_She descends._ CAR. I will do now so, but not at other times. MARIA. You are merry, sir: But what d' y' intend with this your scaling-ladder, To leave it thus, or put it forth of sight? CAR. Faith, 'tis no great matter which: Yet we will take it hence, that it may breed Many confus'd opinions in the house Of your escape. Here, Albert, you shall bear it; It may be you may chance to practise that way; Which when you do, may your attempts so prove, As mine have done--most fortunate in love. ALB. May you continue ever so! But it's time now to make some haste to horse; Night soon will vanish. O, that it had power For ever to exclude day from our eyes, For my looks, then, will show my villany. [_Aside._ CAR. Come, fair Maria, the troubles of this night Are as forerunners to ensuing pleasures. And, noble friend, although now Carracus Seems, in the gaining of this beauteous prize, To keep from you so much of his lov'd treasure, Which ought not to be mixed; yet this heart Shall so far strive in your wish'd happiness, That if the loss and ruin of itself Can but avail your good---- ALB. O friend! no more; come, you are slow in haste; Friendship ought never be discuss'd in words, Till all her deeds be finish'd. Who, looking in a book, And reads but some part only, cannot judge What praise the whole deserves, because his knowledge Is grounded but on part. As thine, friend, is Ignorant of that black mischief I have done thee. [_Aside._ MAR. Carracus, I am weary; are the horses far? CAR. No, fairest, we are now even at them: Come, do you follow, Albert? ALB. Yes, I do follow; would I had done so ever, And ne'er had gone before. [_Aside. Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [364] The pronoun _he_ seems wanting here, but the old 4º omits it.--_Collier._ [365] If this be not a corrupted, it must be an affected, word, coined from the Latin word _niteo_, to shine or be splendid. He was admired by those who _shone_ most in the article of dress.--_Steevens._ So in Marston's "Satires," printed with "Pygmalion," 1598-- "O dapper, rare, compleat, sweet _nittie_ youth! Jesu Maria! how his clothes appeare Crost and re-crost with lace," &c.