_Pier._ Away with that same yelping cur--away!
_Alb._ I--I am gone; but mark, Piero, this.
There is a thing call'd scourging _Nemesis_.[304]
[_Exit_ ALBERTO.
_Bal._ God's neaks, he has wrong, that he has: and
s'fut, and I were as he, I would bear no coals.[305] Law, I,
I begin to swell--puff. 251
_Pier._ How now, fool, fop, fool!
_Bal._[306] Fool, fop, fool! Marry muffe![307] I pray you,
how many fools have you seen go in a suit of satin? I
hope, yet, I do not look a fool i'faith! a fool! God's
bores, I scorn't with my heel. 'S neaks, and I were
worth but three hundred pound a year more, I could
swear richly; nay, but as poor as I am, I will swear
the fellow hath wrong.
_Pier._ Young Galeatzo! Ay, a proper man; 260
Florence, a goodly city: it shall be so,
I'll marry her to him instantly.
Then Genoa mine, by my Maria's match,
Which I'll solemnise ere next setting sun:
Thus Venice, Florence, Genoa, strongly leagued.
Excellent, excellent! I'll conquer Rome,
Pop out the light of bright religion;
And then, helter skelter, all cock-sure.
_Bal._ Go to, 'tis just, the man hath wrong: go to.
_Pier._ Go to, thou shall have right. Go to, Castilio,
Clap him into the palace dungeon; 271
Lap him in rags, and let him feed on slime
That smears the dungeon' cheek. Away with him.
_Bal._ In very good truth, now, I'll ne'er do so more;
this one time and----
_Pier._ Away with him--observe it strictly--go!
_Bal._ Why then, O wight!
Alas, poor knight!
O, welladay,
Sir Jefferay! 280
Let poets roar,
And all deplore;
For now I bid you good-night.
[_Exit_ BALURDO _with_ CASTILIO.
_Re-enter_ MARIA.
_Mar._ O piteous end of love! O too, too rude hand
Of unrespective death! Alas, sweet maid!
_Pier._ Forbear me, Heaven. What intend these plaints?
_Mar._ The beauty of admired creation,
The life of modest unmix'd purity,
Our sex's glory, Mellida is----
_Pier._ What, O Heaven, what!
_Mar._ Dead! 290
_Pier._ May it not sad your thoughts, how?
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