_A noise within._ Follow, follow, follow! _Enter +Don Carlos+, the +Corregidor+, and +Sergeants+, pursuing +Sancho+, +Flora+, and +Diego+._ +Diego.+ This is one of Don Cupid's pretty jests: W' are struck upon a shelf before we could Put out to sea. +Don C.+ You find, sir, my conjecture's not ill-grounded. [_To the +Corregidore+._ +Cor.+ What are you, sirrah? +Diego.+ A living creature, very like a man: Only I want a heart. +Cor.+ Y' are pleasant, sir; pray heaven your mirth continue. Who is that woman with the veil? +Diego.+ Let her answer for herself, sh' has a tongue; Set it but once agoing, and she'll tell All that she knows, and more. +Cor.+ Make her uncover her face. [_One of the +Sergeants+ goes to lift up her veil._ +Don C.+ Hold, friend. Cousin, if it should be Porcia, [_Turning to the +Corregidore+._ It were not fit to expose her here. +Cor.+ 'Tis very well consider'd. Go you to her. And speak to her in private. [_+Don Carlos+ goes towards +Flora+._ +Flo.+ 'Tis I, sir, Flora who, being commanded By my lady---- +Don C.+ Speak softly, prythee, Flora, 'tis enough; I understand the rest, and pity her: Bid her sit still i' th' chair, I'll do my best To save her from dishonour. +Flo.+ He thinks 'tis Porcia there; a good mistake; It may secure Octavio from the hands Of this rude rabble. [_Aside._ They take you for my mistress, sir; sit still, [_To +Don Octavio+ in the chair._ I'll follow the chair, and watch all occasions To further your escape. +Don C.+ We have found our wand'ring nymph, sir. +Cor.+ Was it Porcia? +Don C.+ No, sir, 'twas her waiting-woman, Flora, following the chair, wherein they were conveying her lady to some other place. +Cor.+ We arriv'd luckily: had we but stay'd a moment longer, they had all been fled. +Ser.+ Will you have us see, sir, who's i' th' chair? +Cor.+ Forbear, fellow! Her own folly is punishment enough [_To +Don Carlos+._ T' a woman of her quality, without Our adding that of public shame. +Don C.+ 'Twas happily thought on, when you oblig'd Don Henrique to expect us at your house; For had he come and found his sister here, 'T had been impossible to have restrain'd His passion from some great extravagance.