_Alon._ With all my heart, sir. _Lop._ He is a person of worth and virtue, and is infinitely ambitious of the honour---- _Alon._ Of being known to me; I understand you, sir. _Lop._ If you will please to favour me with your patience, which I beg of you a second time. _Alon._ I am dumb, sir. _Lop._ This cavalier, of whom I was speaking, is in love---- _Alon._ Satisfy yourself, sir, I'll not interrupt you. _Lop._ Sir, I am satisfied of your promise. _Alon._ If I speak one syllable more, the devil take me! Speak when you please. _Lop._ I am going, sir. _Alon._ You need not speak twice to me to be silent: Though I take it somewhat ill of you to be tutored. _Lop._ This eternal old man will make me mad. [_Aside._ _Alon._ Why, when do you begin, sir? How long must a man wait for you? Pray make an end of what you have to say quickly, that I may speak in my turn too. _Lop._ This cavalier is in love---- _Alon._ You told me that before, sir; do you speak oracles, that you require this strict attention? Either let me share the talk with you, or I am gone. _Lop._ Why, sir, I am almost mad to tell you, and you will not suffer me. _Alon._ Will you never have done, sir? I must tell you, sir, you have tattled long enough; and 'tis now good manners to hear me speak. Here's a torrent of words indeed; a very _impetus dicendi_; will you never have done? _Lop._ I will be heard in spite of you. [_This next speech of_ LOPEZ, _and the next of_ ALONZO'S, _with both their replies, are to be spoken at one time, both raising their voices by little and little, till they bawl, and come up close to shoulder one another._ _Lop._ There's one Don Melchor de Guzman, a friend and acquaintance of mine, that is desperately in love with your eldest daughter Donna Theodosia. _Alon._ [_At the same time_.] 'Tis the sentence of a philosopher, _Loquere ut te videam_; speak, that I may know thee; now, if you take away the power of speaking from me-- [_Both pause a little; then speak together again._ _Lop._ I'll try the language of the law; sure the devil cannot out-talk that gibberish.--For this Don Melchor, of Madrid aforesaid, as premised, I request, move, and supplicate, that you would give, bestow, marry, and give in marriage, this your daughter aforesaid, to the cavalier aforesaid.--Not yet, thou devil of a man! thou shalt be silent. [_Exit_ LOPEZ _running_.