_Aur._ And that sigh too, I think, is not altogether disagreeable; but something _charmante_ and _mignonne_. _Cam._ Well, Don Lopez, you'll be but too happy. _Lop._ If I were once possessor-- _Enter_ BELLAMY _and_ THEODOSIA. _Theo._ O we are surprised. _Bel._ Fear nothing, madam; I think, I know them: Don Lopez? _Lop._ Our famous astrologer, how come you here? _Bel._ I am infinitely happy to have met you with Donna Aurelia, that you may do me the favour to satisfy this lady of a truth, which I can scarce persuade her to believe. _Lop._ I am glad our concernments are so equal; for I have the like favour to ask from Donna Theodosia. _Theo._ Don Lopez is too noble to be refused any thing within my power; and I am ready to do him any service, after I have asked my cousin, if ever Don Melchor pretended to her? _Aur._ 'Tis the very question which I was furiously resolved to have asked of you. _Theo._ I must confess he has made some professions to me: And withal, I will acknowledge my own weakness so far as to tell you, I have given way he should often visit me, when the world believed him absent. _Aur._ O cavalier astrologer, how have you betrayed me! did you not assure me, that Don Melchor's tender and inclination was for me only? _Bel._ I had it from his star, madam, I do assure you; and if that twinkled false, I cannot help it. The truth is, there's no trusting the planet of an inconstant man; he was moving to you when I looked on it, and if since it has changed the course, I am not to be blamed for it. _Lop._ Now, madam, the truth is evident. And for this cavalier, he might easily be deceived in Melchor; for I dare affirm it to you both, he never knew to which of you he was most inclined: For he visited one, and writ letters to the other. _Bel._ to _Theo._ Then, madam, I must claim your promise, (since I have discovered to you that Don Melchor is unworthy of your favours) that you would make me happy, who, amongst my many imperfections, can never be guilty of such a falsehood. _Theo._ If I have been deceived in Melchor, whom I have known so long, you cannot reasonably expect, I should trust you at a day's acquaintance. _Bel._ For that, madam, you may know as much of me in a day, as you can in all your life: All my humours circulate like my blood, at farthest within twenty-four hours. I am plain and true, like all my countrymen; you see to the bottom of me as easily, as you do to the gravel of a clear stream in autumn. _Lop._ You plead so well, sir, that I desire you would speak for me too: My cause is the same with yours, only it has not so good an advocate. _Aur._ Since I cannot make myself happy, I will have the glory to felicitate another: and, therefore, I declare, I will reward the fidelity of Don Lopez. _Theo._ All that I can say at present is, that I will never be Don Melchor's: The rest, time and your service must make out.