Mr. Selby, as _Rupert_ from Warsaw, then appears, in a dress most correctly copied from the costume of the knave of clubs. Being a Pole, he stirs up the Cardinal vigorously enough to provoke some exceedingly intemperate language, chiefly by bringing to his memory a case of child-stealing, to which _Martinuzzi_ was, before he had quite sown his wild oats, _particeps criminis_. This case having got into the papers (which _Rupert_ had preserved), the Cardinal wants to obtain them, but offers a price not long enough for the Pole, who, declaring that _Martinuzzi_ carries it "too high" to be trusted with them, vanishes. Mr. Morley afterwards comes forward to sing a song according to Act of Parliament, and the scene changes for Miss Collect to comply, a second time, with the 25th of George II. In the following scene, the Queen Dowager of Hungary, _Isabella_, introduces herself to the audience, to inform them that the Austrian gentleman, _Castaldo_, is "the mild, Pity-fraught object of her fondness." He appears. She makes several inflammatory speeches, which he seems determined not to understand, for he is in love with the virgin queen; and maidens before dowagers is evidently his sensible motto. The second act opens with the queen junior stating her assurance, that if she lives much longer she will die, and that when she is quite dead, she will hate _Martinuzzi_[3]. As, however, she means to hate when she is deceased, she will make the most of her time while alive, by devoting herself to courtship and _Castaldo_: for a very tender love-scene ensues, at the end of which the lady elopes, to leave the lover a clear stage for some half-dozen minutes' ecstatics, appropriately ended by his arrest, ordered by _Martinuzzi_. Why, it is not stated, the officer not even producing the copy of a writ. [3] "_Czerina._ When I am dead--which will be soon--I feel, If I much longer on my throne remain, I shall abhor the name of Martinuzzi." In the next scene, _Isabella_ is visited by _Rupert_, who disinterestedly presents the dowager with the papers for nothing, which he was before offered an odd castle and snug estate for, by _Martinuzzi_. This is accounted for on no other supposition, than the proverbial gallantry of gentlemen from Warsaw. _Martinuzzi_, possessing a ward whom he is anxious should wed the queen, opens the third act by declaring he will "precipitate the match," and so the author considerately sends _Czerina_ to him, to talk the matter over. But the young lady gets into a passion, and the Cardinal declares he can make nothing of her, in the following passage:-- "Fool! I can make thee nothing but a laugh."