“Have I not just cause, When I consider how I could be so stupid, As not to see a friend through all disguises.”(471) Again, we have an indication at the end of the slave-market scene that the slave who followed Paulo will be an important link in the plot: PAULO. Follow me, then; The knave may teach me something. SLAVE. Something that You dearly may repent; howe’er you scorn me, The slave may prove your master.(472) It is this slave who leads the pirates in their attempt to carry off Leonora and Almira. When Antonio appears in his former dress(473) we ask, how did he get it? The answer is, from the Captain, his fellow-slave, whose life he had saved in the past by interceding with the Viceroy.(474) Lastly, the Duke’s reference (V., 2, 130) to the advice which the Viceroy had given him in II., 2, is one of those careful touches making for unity of design in which Massinger delights.(475) No doubt the plot is not free from improbabilities; in real life Antonio would have revealed himself to Pedro, and Pedro and Almira would both have recognized him. We have already seen that Massinger is so fond of a story that he sometimes forgets to let his characters guide it. To round off the play harmoniously, Antonio should have had a soliloquy, to explain to the audience who he was, to lament over the change of his fortunes, to express a hope that all would come right in the end, to reassert his devotion to Pedro, and to protest his loyalty in spite of everything to Almira. Perhaps something of the sort was cut out.