_Man._ May I speak with thee? _Ros._ With pleasure. _Man._ Stand we aside. Hast thou forgotten me? _Ros._ Nay, for I think I have never seen thee ... or I ask thy pardon. _Man._ Now thou shouldst know me well. _Ros._ Thy voice I think I do remember. _Man._ (_discovering_). Do you know me now? _Ros._ Manuel! Thank God! _Man._ Is it a good disguise? _Ros._ Metamorphosis ... if indeed ’tis thou, In such a husk. Then thou’rt nót drowned! _Man._ Indeed, There was a time when I had some fear to be; But how came you to know it? _Ros._ Of the ships 2040 One returned home with news that thine was sunk. Was not that true? _Man._ Ay, ay, _Ros._ How didst thou ’scape? _Man._ I took my only chance, leapt overboard And swam to the enemy. By heavenly fortune The ship that ran us down was Raymond’s, he Who served so long with us. I had left my foes To find old friends: and when the fight was o’er, I told him in what hapless case I stood, And promising to hold myself no less His prisoner, and surrender to his master 2050 At Naples if need were, I bade him land me By night at Cefaledi; there arrived, By the good sailor friars I was clad In the disguise you see, and came in speed To look to matters here. _Ros._ There is great need. _Man._ Ay, my affairs with Constance? _Ros._ I grieve to tell Constance is lying ill. _Man._ She is in your hands? _Ros._ Ay. _Man._ Doth she doubt of me? _Ros._ At your committal A fever must have seized her. Then your death, Which should have been concealed, was urged upon her, 2060 In countenance of duke Philip’s suit ... _Man._ How? Philip! _Ros._ Did you not guess? _Man._ Is’t possible? _Ros._ At that Her mind gave way: ’tis question of her life. _Man._ I bring the medicine to work her cure. Is’t not enough? _Ros._ I trust so. _Man._ And I think it. How blind I have been! I trusted Philip, and he Was playing against me. Time will right me, Rosso, In this as in the other. Patience. And what Of your affairs ... _Ros._ How mine? _Man._ Your love affairs. _Ros._ My love affairs? _Man._ Ay,—Margaret. _Ros._ Margaret? 2070