_Tick_. It may be so, but I wish I had my Ring again, I do not like the
giving Lesson without the taking one; why this is picking a Man’s pocket,
_certo_.
Sir _Sig_. Not so, Governour, for then I had had a considerable loss:
Look ye here,--how--how [_feeling in his Pocket_.] how--[_in another_]
how--gone? gone as I live, my Money, Governour; all the Gold _Barberacho_
receiv’d of my Merchant to day--all gone.--
_Tick_. Hah--and mine--all my stock, the Money which I thought to have
made a present to the Gentlewoman, _Barberacho_ was to bring me to--
[_Aside_.]--Undone, undone--Villains, Cutpurses--Cheats, oh, run after
him.
Sir _Sig_. A Pox of all silent stories; Rogue, Thief--undone.--
[Exeunt.
ACT III.
SCENE I. _The Corso_.
_Enter_ Julio _and his_ Page.
_Jul_. How, the Lady whom I followed from St. _Peter’s_ Church, a
Curtezan?
_Pag_. A Curtezan, my Lord, fair as the Morning, and as young.
_Jul_. I know she’s fair and young; but is she to be had, Boy?
_Pag_. My Lord, she is--her Footman told me she was a Zittella.
_Jul_. How, a Zittella!--a Virgin, ‘tis impossible.
_Pag_. I cannot swear it, Sir, but so he told me; he said she had a World
of Lovers: Her name is _Silvianetta_, Sir, and her Lodgings--
_Jul_. I know’t, are on the _Corso_; a Curtezan? and a Zittella too? a
pretty contradiction; but I’ll bate her the last, so I might enjoy her as
the first: whate’er the price be, I’m resolv’d upon the adventure; and
will this minute prepare my self. [_Going off, Enter_ Mor. and Octa.]--
hah, does the Light deceive me, or is that indeed my Uncle, in earnest
conference with a Cavalier?--’tis he--I’ll step aside till he’s past,
lest he hinders this Night’s diversion.
[_Goes aside_.
_Mor_. I say ‘twas rashly done, to fight him unexamin’d.
_Oct_. I need not ask; my Reason has inform’d me, and I’m convinc’d,
where-e’er he has concealed her, that she is fled with _Fillamour_.
_Jul_. Who is’t they speak of?
_Mor_. Well, well, sure my Ancestors committed some horrid crime against
Nature, that she sent this Pest of Woman-kind into our Family,--two
Nieces for my share;--by Heaven, a Proportion sufficient to undo six
Generations.
_Jul_. Hah? two Nieces, what of them? [_Aside_.
_Mor_. I am like to give a blessed account of ‘em to their Brother
_Julio_ my Nephew, at his return; there’s a new plague now:--but my
comfort is, I shall be mad, and there’s an end on’t.
[_Weeps_.
_Jul_. My Curiosity must be satisfied,--have patience, Noble Sir.--
_Mor_. Patience is a flatterer, Sir,--and an Ass, Sir; and I’ll have none
on’t--hah, what art thou?
_Jul_. Has five or six Years made ye lose the remembrance of your
Nephew--_Julio_?
_Mor. Julio!_ I wou’d I had met thee going to thy Grave.
[_Weeps_.
_Jul_. Why so, Sir?
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