_Carl._ With whom, colonel? _San._ That's not yet resolved, colonel; but with one of the court ladies. You may stand a man's friend, Carlos, in such a business. _Carl._ You may depend on me, Sancho, because my dependance is on you. You got plunder in the battle; while I was hacked and hewed, and almost laid asleep in the damned bed of honour. _San._ Nay, I confess I am a lucky rogue, for I was born with a caul upon my head. _Carl._ I'm sure I came bare enough into the world, and live as barely in it. _San._ Make me but lustily in love, and I'll adopt thee into my fortune; but thou standest--shall I, shall I, till all the ladies are out of sight. Here, take that _billet-doux_, which I have pulled out by chance from amongst twenty, that I always wear about me for such occasions. _Carl._ But to which of them shall I deliver it? _San._ Even to her thou canst first overtake.--Nay, do not lose thy time in looking on't, there's no particular direction, man. Fortune ever superscribes my letters to the fair sex: I let her alone to find me out a handsome mistress; and let me alone to make her kind afterwards. _Carl._ But suppose I should happen to deliver it to my own mistress, for she was in the presence with her father. _San._ Then I suppose thou wilt be the first that shall repent it; for she will certainly fall in love with me. LOPEZ _and_ DALINDA _re-enter, and walk softly over the Stage_. Look, there's one of them already; my heart beats at the very sight of her. This must and shall be she, by Cupid. _Carl._ And, by Venus, the very she I love! _San._ Pr'ythee no more words then, for fate will have it so. _Carl._ [_Aside._] I know it's impossible for her father to receive him, or her to love him; and yet his good fortune, and my rascally, three-penny planet[56], make me suspicious without reason. But hang superstition! I'll draw such a picture of him as shall do his business. _San._ Now will I stand _incognito_, like some mighty potentate, and see my own embassy delivered. [CARLOS _overtakes_ LOPEZ _and_ DALINDA, _just going off, and salutes them_. _Lop._ Cousin Carlos, you are welcome from the wars; I think I saw you in the show to day. _Carl._ The ceremony hindered me from paying my respects; but I made haste, you see---- _Lop._ I hope you'll no more be a stranger to my house, than you have been formerly. Your mistress here will be proud to entertain you; and then you shall tell me the whole expedition. I love battles wonderfully, when a man may hear them without peril of his person. _San._ [_Aside._] Nothing of my letter all this while!--why when Carlos? [_Whispering aloud to him._ _Carl._ [_Aside._] Now I dare not but deliver it, because he sees me.--Don Lopez, I have a foolish kind of petition to you. [_To_ LOP. _Lop._ Why do you call it a foolish petition?