_Lor._ While such an If is in the way, you run no great risque in declaring; but you'd be finely catch'd now, shou'd some wonderful transformation give me a claim to your heart. _Cam._ Not sorry for't at all, for I ne'er expect to find a mistress please me half so well as you would do if I were yours. _Lor._ Since you are so well inclin'd to me in your wishes, Sir, I suppose (as the fates have ordain'd it) you wou'd have some pleasure in helping me to a mistress, since you can't be mine yourself. _Cam._ Indeed I shou'd not. _Lor._ Then my obligation is but small to you. _Cam._ Why, wou'd you have a woman, that is in love with you herself, employ her interest to help you to another? _Lor._ No, but you being no woman might. _Cam._ Sir, 'tis as a woman I say what I do, and I suppose myself a woman when I design all these favours to you: therefore out of that supposition, I have no other good intentions to you than you may expect from one that says he's----Sir, your humble servant. _Lor._ So unless Heaven is pleas'd to work a miracle, and from a sturdy young fellow, make you a kind-hearted young lady, I'm to get little by your good opinion of me. _Cam._ Yes; there is one means yet left (on this side a miracle) that wou'd perhaps engage me, if with an honest oath you could declare, were I woman, I might dispute your heart even with the first of my pretending sex. _Lor._ Then solemnly and honestly I swear, that had you been a woman, and I the master of the world, I think I should have laid it at your feet. _Cam._ Then honestly and solemnly I swear, henceforwards all your interest shall be mine. _Lor._ I have a secret to impart to you will quickly try your friendship. _Cam._ I've a secret to unfold to you will put you even to a fiery trial. _Lor._ What do you mean, _Camillo_? _Cam._ I mean that I love, where I never durst yet own it, yet where 'tis in your power to make me the happiest of---- _Lor._ Explain, _Camillo_; and be assur'd if your happiness is in my power, 'tis in your own. _Cam._ Alas! you promise me you know not what. _Lor._ I promise nothing but what I will perform; name the person. _Cam._ 'Tis one who is very near to you. _Lor._ If 'tis my sister, why all this pain in bringing forth the secret? _Cam._ Alas! it is your---- _Lor._ Speak! _Cam._ I cannot yet; farewel. _Lor._ Hold! Pray speak it now. _Cam._ I must not: but when you tell me your secret, you shall know mine. _Lor._ Mine is not in my power, without the consent of another. _Cam._ Get that consent, and then we'll try who best will keep their oaths. _Lor._ I am content. _Cam._ And I. Adieu. _Lor._ Farewel. [_Exit ~Lorenzo~._ _Enter ~Leonora~ and ~Jacinta~._