+Ort.+ Why, Thou shalt have it all, if I can help thee To't; this night will I convey you privately Into his bed-chamber. Come along with me, And I will tell you all. [_Exit._ +Arb.+ My lord, I follow you. Sister, go to your chamber. +Art.+ O brother! Heaven preserve you in this danger. +Arb.+ Now It comes into my head, I need not doubt This lord's truth; he is next heir to the dukedom, If the duke die without issue. 'Tis base in him the duke's life to pursue, His blood is only to my sister due. [_Exit._ +Art.+ False duke, thou justly hast deserv'd thy death; To cheat the innocent is a double crime; I had no cunning guard about this heart To keep it safe from a seducing tongue. I have lost my heart, which he by falseness won; How soon is truth and innocence undone! [_Exit._ _Enter +Philidor+._ +Phil.+ Pray remember the poor prisoners, pray Remember the prisoners. Well, had I Not taken this course with the regiment Of women that I have promis'd to marry, I should have been devour'd by 'em by this Time. They came just now into my chamber, One by one, hoping to have found me alone, To have preach'd matrimony to me; but, To my blest deliverance, no sooner One was there, but another came; so I Persuaded them one by one, to slip up Into a garret: so still as one knock'd At the door, the t'other ascended; there Have I secur'd them with this key, and there Must I keep them till I have made Conditions with them. _Enter +Mirida+._ O, here comes Mirida. Pray remember the poor prisoners, pray Remember the poor prisoners. +Mir.+ Who the devil's that, Philidor? +Phil.+ The very same, my mettled female. +Mir.+ Why, What mad prank art thou playing now? +Phil.+ Alack- A-day, I have great cares upon me; I Must provide meat for half-a-dozen ladies, That shou'd have been my spouses. Look up yonder; In that very garret, for aught I know, they Must dine and sup at my charge as long as They live; and thus must I be their cook every Day, and beg their first and second course. +Mir.+ I am sorry to hear this, because 'tis A wilder trick than I have done lately To any of my lovers. Prythee, let's Go under the window, and call to them. +Phil.+ Come away, you shall hear what vollies we shall Have from the castle. Most excellent Amazonian ladies, look out, and behold Your labouring purveyor, what pains he Takes to victual your castle, Because he knows you must be long there. [_Women look out._ +1st Lady.+ Rogue! +2d Lady.+ Rascal! +3d Lady.+ Villain! +4th Lady.+ Dog!