_Lop._ Ay, that's true, Sir; and yet a Blunderbuss is presently discharged out of a Garret-Window. Don _John._ Come, no more Words, but follow me: How now! what Impertinence have we here now, to stop me? _Enter Don ~Pedro~._ _Lop._ 'Tis Don _Pedro_, or I'm a Dog. Don _John._ Impossible! Don _Pedro_ return'd! Don _Ped._ 'Tis I, my dearest Friend; I'm come to forget all the Miseries of a long Absence in one happy Embrace. [_They embrace._ Don _John._ I'm overjoy'd to see you. Don _Ped._ Mine's not to be exprest. What, Friend _Lopez_ here still! How dost do, _Lopez_? What, dost not know me? _Lop._ As well as my Father's Seal, Sir, when he sends me a Bill of Exchange. Don _Ped._ Just as he was, I find, Galliard still. _Lop._ I find it very unwholesome to be otherwise, Sir. Don _John._ You have then quitted the Service in _Flanders_, I suppose. Don _Ped._ I have so, Friend! I have left the Ensigns of _Mars_, and am listing myself in a softer Militia. Don _John._ Explain, pray. Don _Ped._ Why, when your Father's Death oblig'd you to leave _Brussels_, and return hither to the plentiful Fortune he left you; I stay'd in _Flanders_, very trist for your Lost, and past three Years in the Trade of War. About two Months since, my Father writ to me from _Toledo_, that he was going to marry me very advantageously at _Valencia_: He sent me the Picture of the Lady, and I was so well pleased with it, that I immediately got my _Congé_ and embark'd at _Dunkirk_; I had a quick Passage to the _Groyne_, from whence, by the way of _Madrid_, I am come hither with all the Speed I cou'd. I have, you must know, been two Days in Town, but I have lain _Incognito_, that I might inform myself of the Lady's Conduct I'm to marry; and I have discover'd, that she's serv'd by two Cavaliers of Birth and Merit. But tho' they have both given many Proofs of a most violent Passion, I have found, for the Quiet of my Honour, that this virtuous Lady, out of Modesty or Prudence, has shewn a perfect Indifference to them and their Gallantries; her Fortune is considerable, her Birth is high, her Manners irreproachable, and her Beauty so great, that nothing but my Love can equal it. Don _John._ I have hearken'd to you, Don _Pedro_, with a great deal of Attention, and Heaven's my Witness, I have a mighty Joy in seeing you; but the Devil fetch me, it makes my Heart bleed, to hear you are going to be married. Don _Ped._ Say no more of that, I desire you; we have always been Friends, and I earnestly beg we ever may be so; but I am not come to ask Counsel about my Marriage; my Party is taken, and my Inquiries have so much heightened my Desire, that nothing can henceforth abate it. I must, therefore, expect from you, dear Friend, that you won't oppose it, but that you'll aid me in hast'ning the Moment of my Happiness.