thee and thy family.----Eternal honour, Sir, is too much in conscience for a serving-man; besides ambition has been many a great soul's undoing----I doubt thou art afraid, my _Lopez_, thou shalt be arm'd with back, with breast and headpiece----They will encumber me in my retreat.----Retreat! my hero! Thou never shalt retreat.----Then by my troth I'll never go, Sir.----But here he comes. _Enter ~Lorenzo~._ _Lor._ Will it never be night? sure 'tis the longest day the sun e'er travell'd. _Lop._ Would 'twere as long as those in _Greenland_, Sir, that you might spin out your life t'other half year. I don't like these nightly projects; a man can't see what he does: we shall have some scurvy mistake or other happen; a brace of bullets blunder thro' your head in the dark perhaps, and spoil all your intrigue. _Lor._ Away, you trembling wretch, away. _Lop._ Nay, Sir, what I say is purely for your safety: for as to myself----Uds-death, I no more value the losing a quart of blood, than I do drinking a quart of wine. Besides, my veins are too full, my physician advis'd me yesterday to let go twenty ounces for my health. So you see, Sir, there's nothing of that in the case. _Lor._ Then let me hear no other objections: for 'till I see _Leonora_ I must lie upon the rack. I cannot bear her resentment, and will pacify her this night, or not live to see to-morrow. _Lop._ Well, Sir, since you are so determin'd, I shan't be impertinent with any farther advice; but I think you have laid your design to----[_He coughs._] (I have got such a cold to-day) to get in privately, have you not? _Lor._ Yes; and have taken care to be introduced as far as her chamber-door with all secrecy. _Lop._ [_He coughs._]----This unlucky cough, I had rather have had a fever at another time. Sir, I should be sorry to do you more harm than good upon this occasion: if this cough shou'd come upon me in the midst of the action, [_Coughs._] and give the alarm to the family, I shou'd not forgive myself as long as I liv'd. _Lor._ I have greater ventures than that to take my chance for, and can't dispense with your attendance, Sir. _Lop._ This 'tis to be a good servant, and make one's self necessary. _Enter ~Toledo~._ _Tol._ Sir,----I am glad I have found you. I am a man of honour, you know, and do always profess losing my life upon a handsome occasion: sir, I come to offer you my service. I am inform'd from unquestionable hands, that Don _Carlos_ is enrag'd against you to a dangerous degree; and that old _Alvarez_ has given positive directions to break the legs and arms of your servant _Lopez_. _Lop._ Look you there, now, I thought what 'twou'd come to; what do they meddle with me for? What have I to do in my Master's amours? The old Don's got out of his senses, I think, have I married his daughter?