_Clo._ Not know me yet? cannot this Face inform him?
My Sighs, nor Eyes, my Accent, nor my Tale?
Had he one thought of me, he must have found me out.
--Yes, yes, ‘tis certain I am miserable;
He’s going now to see some fresher Beauties,
And I, he says, must be a witness of it;
This gives me Wounds, painful as those of Love:
Some Women now would find a thousand Plots
From so much Grief as I have, but I’m dull;
Yet I’ll to _Laura_, and advise with her,
Where I will tell her such a heavy Tale,
As shall oblige her to a kind concern:
--This may do; I’ll tell her of this Thought,
This is the first of Art I ever thought on;
And if this proves a fruitless Remedy,
The next, I need not study, how to die.
[Exeunt.
SCENE IV. A Street.
Enter _Lorenzo_, meets _Guilliam_, who passes by him, and takes
no notice of him.
_Lor._ How now, Manners a few?
_Guil._ I cry you heartily, Sir, I did not see you.
_Lor._ Well, Sirrah, the News.
_Guil._ Sir, the Gentlewoman whom you sent me to says That she’ll meet
you here.
_Lor._ That’s well, thou mayst come to be a States-man In time, thou art
a fellow of so quick dispatch: But hark ye, Sirrah, there are a few
Lessons I must learn you, Concerning Offices of this nature; But another
time for that: but--
[Whispers.
Enter _Isabella_, and _Antonio’s Valet_.
_Isab._ Here he is; and prithee, when thou seest him in My Chamber, go
and tell my Lord, Under pretence of the care you have of the Honour of
his House.
_Val._ I warrant you, let me alone for a Tale, And a Lye at the end
on’t; which shall not over-much Incense him, nor yet make him neglect
coming.
[Ex. _Val._
_Lor._ Oh, are you there, Mistress? what have you now To say for your
last Night’s Roguery? Are not you a Baggage? confess.
_Isab._ You have a mind to lose your opportunity again, As you did last
Night, have ye not? Pray God your own Shadow scare you not, As it did
then; and you will possibly believe No body meant you harm then, nor
now.
_Lor._ Art thou in earnest?
_Isab._ Are you in earnest?
_Lor._ Yes, that I am, and that _Clarina_ shall find, If I once come to
her.
_Isab._ Come, leave your frippery Jests, and come in.
_Lor._ _Guilliam_, be sure you attend me here, And whoever you see, say
nothing; the best on’t is, Thou art not much known.
[_Isab._ and _Lor._ go in.
_Guil._ Well, I see there is nothing but foutering In this Town; wou’d
our _Lucia_ were here too for me, For all the Maids I meet with are so
giglish And scornful, that a Man, as I am, Gets nothing but flouts and
flings from them. Oh, for the little kind Lass that lives Under the
Hill, of whom the Song was made; Which because I have nothing else to
do, I will sing over now; hum, hum.
The Song for _Guilliam_. [To some Tune like him.
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