The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 08Dryden, John
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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 08
Dryden, John
English drama -- 17th century
_San._ That's true; now I remember myself, you have not.
_Lop._ But that you have wronged my daughter is manifest.
_Dal._ [_To_ SANCHO.] Sir, I must needs speak a word with you in
private. If you love me, confess you have enjoyed me; for I told my
father so, on purpose to make him the more condescending to the match.
_San._ [_To her._] A word to the wise, I understand you. Now you shall
see me top upon the old fellow [_To_ LOPEZ.] Well, sennor, I won't
stand with you for a night's lodging with your daughter; I acknowledge
I have been a little familiar with her, or so: but, to make her amends,
I will marry her, and consummate with her most abundantly.
_Lop._ Then all shall be set right, and the man shall have his mare
again.
_Enter_ CARLOS, _habited like_ SANCHO.
_Lop._ What, another Don Alonzo? this is prodigious!
_Carl._ [_Aside, seeing_ SANCHO.] Bless me, the post is taken up
already, and the true count is here before me.
_Dal._ [_Aside._] This is not my Conde; but some other counterfeit.
[_To_ SANCHO.] You are as true a count as he: stand to your likeness.
_San._ Would I were out of my likeness! [_Sneaking back._
_Dal._ Put forward, man, I'll second you.
_San._ But what a devilish high back he has gotten too? he'll carry me
away a pick-a-pack, that's certain.
_Carl._ [_Aside._] I find him now: by their whispering and by his
aukwardness, this must be Sancho; and I'll out-face him. [_To_ LOPEZ.]
Sennor Don Lopez, I am come, by your permission, to renew my addresses
to your fair daughter.
_Lop._ Your lordship is most welcome.
_San._ Whose lordship?
_Lop._ Why, one of your lordships; I know not which, for by your backs
you are both my lords. That's as you two can agree the matter.
_San._ [_To_ CARLOS.] Sirrah, where did you steal that back of mine?
_Carl._ Sirrah, I was born with it; but what he-camel has your mother
been dealing withal, that you are begotten in my resemblance?
_San._ What, I hope you wont pretend to pass for the true Conde?
_Carl._ I am Don Alonzo de Cardona.
_San._ And so am I.
_Carl._ If you stay a little longer, I'll stretch your bones, till you
are as strait as an arrow.
_San._ Do not provoke me; I am mischievously bent.
_Carl._ Nay, you are bent enough in conscience; but I have a bent fist
for boxing.
_San._ And I have a strait foot for kicking.
[_They come up to each other._
_Lop._ Here will be bloodshed immediately.--Hold, noblemen both; will
ye be content that I should examine ye, and then stand to my award
which is the true Conde?
_San._ Well, to save Christian blood, I will.
_Carl._ And, to save Jewish blood,--that is your blood, sirrah,--I am
contented too.
_Lop._ [_To_ CARLOS.] What command had you, my lord, in the last battle?
_Carl._ I had none; I was a volunteer, and charged with honourable
Colonel Carlos in the fight.
_Lop._ [_To_ SANCHO.] And what command had your lordship there?
_San._ I had none neither; and I charged with that rogue Carlos.
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