_Lor._ A smooth-fac’d Boy, and ask such a Question?
Fy, fy, this Ignorance was ill counterfeited
To me that understand the World.
_Clo._ Explain your self, Sir.
_Lor._ Lookye, ten or twenty Pistoles will do you
No hurt, will it?
_Clo._ Not any, Sir.
_Lor._ Why, so, ‘tis well any thing will make thee
Apprehend.
_Clo._ I shall be glad to serve you, Sir, without that fee.
_Lor._ That’s kindly said--
I see a Man must not be too easy of belief: had I been so,
This Boy would have been at, what d’ye mean, Sir?
And, Lord, I understand you not.
Well, _Philibert_, here’s earnest to bind the Bargain;
I am now in haste; when I see thee next,
I’ll tell thee more. [_Lorenzo_ whispers to _Laura_.
_Clo._ This ‘tis to be a Favourite now;
I warrant you I must do him some good office to the Prince,
Which I’ll be sure to do.
_Lor._ Nay, it must be done, for she has us’d me basely;
Oh, ‘tis a Baggage.
_Lau._ Let me alone to revenge you on _Isabella_,
Get me but from this Imprisonment.
_Lor._ I will: whilst I hold the old Man in a dispute,
Do you two get away; but be sure thou pay’st her home.
_Lau._ I warrant you, Sir, this was happy;
Now shall I see _Curtius_.
_Lor._ _Philibert_, I advise you to have a care of
Wenching: ‘twill spoil a good Face,
And mar your better market of the two. [Ex. _Lor._
_Lau._ Come, let us haste, and by the way, I’ll tell thee
Of a means that may make us all happy.
[Exeunt.
SCENE II. A Grove.
Enter _Alberto_ melancholy.
_Alb._ _Antonio_ said he would be here,
I’m impatient till he come--
Enter _Antonio_.
_Ant._ _Alberto_, I have such a Project for thee!
_Alb._ Hah-- [Gazes.
_Ant._ What ails thee, art thou well?
_Alb._ No.
_Ant._ Where art thou sick?
_Alb._ At Heart, _Antonio_, poison’d by thy Jealousy;
--Oh, thou hast ruin’d me, undone my Quiet,
And from a Man of reasonable Virtue,
Hast brought me to a wild distracted Lover.
_Ant._ Explain your self.
_Alb._ Thou’st taught me, Friend, to love _Clarina_;
Not, as I promis’d thee, to feign, but so,
That I, unless I do possess that Object,
I think must die; at best be miserable.
_Ant._ How, Sir, have I done this?
_Alb._ Yes, Antonio, thou hast done this.
_Ant._ My dear _Alberto_, said you that you lov’d her?
_Alb._ Yes, _Antonio_, against my will I do;
As much against my will, as when I told her so;
Urg’d by thy needless Stratagem.
_Ant._ Name it no more, it was an idle Fault,
Which I do so repent me,
That if you find I should relapse again,
Kill me, and let me perish with my Weakness:
And were that true you tell me of your Passion,
Sure I should wish to die, to make you happy.
_Alb._ That’s kindly said, and I submit to you,
And am content to be out-done in Amity.
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