_Pala._ Lord, Lord, what shall I do?--Well, dear friend, to let you see I scorn to be jealous, and that I dare trust my mistress with you, take her back, for I would not willingly have her frighted, and I am resolved to see who's there; I'll not be daunted with a bugbear, that's certain:--Prithee, dispute it not, it shall be so; nay do not put me to swear, but go quickly: There's an effort of pure friendship for you now. _Enter_ DORALICE, _and looks amazed, seeing them._ _Rho._ Doralice! I am thunder-struck to see you here. _Pala._ So am I! quite thunder-struck. Was it you, that called me within?--I must be impudent. _Rho._ How came you hither, spouse? _Pala._ Ay, how came you hither? And, which is more, how could you be here without my knowledge? _Dor._ [_To her husband._] O, gentlemen, have I caught you i'faith! have I broke forth in ambush upon you! I thought my suspicions would prove true. _Rho._ Suspicions! this is very fine, spouse! Prithee, what suspicions? _Dor._ O, you feign ignorance: Why, of you and Melantha; here have I staid these two hours, waiting with all the rage of a passionate, loving wife, but infinitely jealous, to take you two in the manner; for hither I was certain you would come. _Rho._ But you are mistaken, spouse, in the occasion; for we came hither on purpose to find Palamede, on intelligence he was gone before. _Pala._ I'll be hanged then, if the same party, who gave you intelligence I was here, did not tell your wife you would come hither. Now I smell the malice on't on both sides. _Dor._ Was it so, think you? nay, then, I'll confess my part of the malice too. As soon as ever I spied my husband and Melantha come together, I had a strange temptation to make him jealous in revenge; and that made me call Palamede, Palamede! as though there had been an intrigue between us. _Mel._ Nay, I avow, there was an appearance of an intrigue between us too. _Pala._ To see how things will come about! _Rho._ And was it only thus, my dear Doralice? [_Embrace._ _Dor._ And did I wrong n'own Rhodophil, with a false suspicion? [_Embracing him._ _Pala._ [_Aside._] Now I am confident we had all four the same design: 'Tis a pretty odd kind of game this, where each of us plays for double stakes: This is just thrust and parry with the same motion; I am to get his wife, and yet to guard my own mistress. But I am vilely suspicious, that, while I conquer in the right wing, I shall be routed in the left; for both our women will certainly betray their party, because they are each of them for gaining of two, as well as we; and I much fear. If their necessities and ours were known, They have more need of two, than we of one. [_Exeunt, embracing one another._ ACT IV. SCENE I. _Enter_ LEONIDAS, _musing;_ AMALTHEA, _following him._