_Enter a Servant to_ ALONZO. _Ser._ Sir---- [_Whispers._ _Alon._ Sir, I am sorry a business of importance calls me hence; but I'll wait on you some other time, to discourse more at large of astrology. _Bel._ Is your business very pressing? _Alon._ It is, I assure you, sir. _Bel._ I am very sorry, for I should have instructed you in such rare secrets! I have no fault, but that I am too communicative. _Alon._ I'll dispatch my business, and return immediately; come away, daughter. [_Exeunt_ ALON. THEO. BEAT. _and Serv_. _Bel._ A devil on his learning; he had brought me to my last legs; I was fighting as low as ever was 'Squire Widdrington. _Mask._ Who would have suspected it from that wicked elder? _Bel._ Suspected it? why 'twas palpable from his very physiognomy; he looks like Haly, and the spirit Fircue in the fortune-book. _Enter_ WILDBLOOD. _Wild._ How now, Bellamy! in wrath! pr'ythee, what's the matter? _Bel._ The story is too long to tell you; but this rogue here has made me pass for an arrant fortune-teller. _Mask._ If I had not, I am sure he must have passed for an arrant mad man; he had discovered, in a rage, all that Beatrix had confessed to me concerning her mistress's love; and I had no other way to bring him off, but to say he knew it by the planets. _Wild._ And art thou such an oaf to be vexed at this? as the adventure may be managed, it may make the most pleasant one in all the carnival. _Bel._ Death! I shall have all Madrid about me in these two days. _Wild._ Nay, all Spain, i'faith, as fast as I can divulge thee: Not a ship shall pass out from any port, but shall ask thee for a wind; thou shalt have all the trade of Lapland within a month. _Bel._ And do you think it reasonable for me to stand defendant to all the impertinent questions, that the town can ask me? _Wild._ Thou shalt do't, boy: Pox on thee, thou dost not know thine own happiness; thou wilt have the ladies come to thee; and if thou dost not fit them with fortunes, thou art bewitched. _Mask._ Sir, 'tis the easiest thing in nature; you need but speak doubtfully, or keep yourself in general terms, and, for the most part, tell good rather than bad fortune. _Wild._ And if at any time thou venturest at particulars, have an evasion ready like Lilly; as thus,--It will infallibly happen, if our sins hinder not.--I would undertake, with one of his almanacks, to give very good content to all Christendom, and what good luck fell not out in one kingdom, should in another. _Mask._ The pleasure on't will be to see how all his customers will contribute to their own deceiving; and verily believe he told them that, which they told him. _Bel._ Umph! now I begin to taste it; I am like the drunken tinker in the play, a great prince, and never knew it.