_Car_. By what strange Witchcraft shall this be brought to pass?
_Guz_. E’en honest Invention, Sir, good Faith, listen and believe:--When
he goes, he certainly goes by Sea, to save the charges of Mules.
_Ant_. Right, I heard him say so; in the Galley that lies in the Port.
_Guz_. Good, there is a Galley also, in the Harbour, you lately took
from the _Turks_; Habits too were taken in her enough to furnish out
some forty or fifty as convenient _Turks_ as a man wou’d wish at
the Devil.
_Car_. Ah, Rogue, I begin to apprehend already.
_Guz_. Our _Turkish_ Galley thus man’d, I’ll put to Sea, and about a
League from Land, with a sham-fight set on that of Old _Francisco_, take
it, make ‘em all Slaves, clap the Old Fellow under hatches, and then you
may deal with the fair Slave his Wife, as _Adam_ did with _Eve_.
_Car_. I’m ravish’d with the thought.
_Ant_. But what will be the event of this?
_Car_. I will not look so far, but stop at the dear Joys, and fear no
Fate beyond ‘em.
_Guz_. Nay, with a little cudgelling this dull Brain of mine I shall
advance it farther for the Jest-sake;--as I take it, Signior Don
_Antonio_, you have a fine Villa, within a Bow-shot of this City
belonging to your self.
_Ant_. I have with pleasant Gardens, Grotto’s, Waterworks.--
_Car_. A most admirable Scene for Love and our Designs.
_Ant_. ‘Tis yours, Sir.
_Guz_. Then, Sir, when we have taken this old Fool, on whom the grossest
cheat wou’d pass, much more this, which shall carry so seeming a Truth
in’t, he being clapt under hatches in the Dark, we’ll wind round a
League or two at Sea, turn in, and land at this Garden, Sir, of yours,
which we’ll pretend to be a _Seraglio_, belonging to the _Grand
Seignior_; whither, in this hot part o’th’ year, he goes to regale
himself with his She-Slaves.
_Car_. But the distance of Place and Time allow not such a Fallacy.
_Guz_. Why he never read in’s life; knows neither Longitude nor
Latitude, and _Constantinople_ may be in the midst of _Spain_ for any
thing he knows; besides, his Fear will give him little leisure
for thinking.
_Ant_. But how shall we do with the Seamen of this other Gally?
_Guz_. There’s not above a Dozen, besides the Slaves that are chain’d to
the Oar, and those Dozen, a Pistole apiece wou’d not only make ‘em
assist in the design, but betray it in earnest to the _Grand Seignior_;
--for them I’ll undertake, the Master of it being _Pier de Sala_, your
Father’s old Servant, Sir. [_To_ Carlos.
_Ant_. But possibly his mind may alter upon the Arrival of this False
Count of ours?
_Car_. No matter, make sure of those Seamen however; that they may be
ready upon occasion.
_Ant_. ‘Tis high time for me that your Count were arriv’d, for this
morning is destin’d the last of my Liberty.
_Car_. This Morning--Come, haste and dress me--
[_To_ Guz.]--_Guzman_, where’s our Count?
_Enter_ Guiliom _drest fine, two great_ Pages
_and a little one following_.
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