Sir _Sig_. Enough,--here’s a Bill for 500 Crowns more upon my Merchant,
you know him by a good token, I lost the last Sum you receiv’d for me, a
pox of that Handsel; away, here’s company.
[_Ex_. Pet. _Enter_ Octavio _and_ Crapine.]
Now will I disguise my self, according to the mode of the Roman
Inamoratos; and deliver my self upon the place appointed.
[_Ex. Sir_ Sig.
_Oct_. On the _Corso_ didst thou see ‘em?
_Crap_. On the _Corso_, my Lord, in discourse with three Cavaliers, one
of which has given me many a Pistole, to let him into the Garden a-nights
at _Viterbo_, to talk with _Donna Marcella_ from her Chamber-Window, I
think I shou’d remember him.
_Oct_. Oh, that Thought fires me with Anger fit for my Revenge,
[_Aside_.
And they are to serenade ‘em, thou say’st?
_Crap_. I did, my Lord: and if you can have patience till they come, you
will find your Rival in this very place, if he keep his word.
_Oct_. I do believe thee, and have prepared my Bravoes to attack him: if
I can act but my Revenge to night, how shall I worship Fortune? Keep out
of sight, and when I give the word, be ready all. I hear some coming,
let’s walk off a little.--
_Enter_ Marcella _in Man’s Clothes, and_ Philippa _as a Woman
with a Lanthorn_. Oct. _and_ Crap. _go off the other way_.
_Mar_. Thou canst never convince me, but if _Crapine_ saw us, and gaz’d
so long upon us, he must know us too; and then what hinders but by a
diligent watch about the House, they will surprize us, e’er we have
secured our selves from ‘em?
_Phil_. And how will this exposing your self to danger prevent ‘em?
_Mar_. My design now is, to prevent _Fillamour’s_ coming into danger, by
hindring his approach to this House: I wou’d preserve the kind Ingrate
with any hazard of my own; and ‘tis better to die than fall into the
hands of _Octavio_. I’m desperate with that thought, and fear no danger:
however, be you ready at the door, and when I ring admit me--ha--who
comes here?
_Enter_ Tickletext _with a Periwig and Crevat of Sir_ Signal’s:
_A Sword by his side, and a dark Lanthorn; she opens
hers, looks on him, and goes out_.
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