GIOVANNI ALTOFRONTO, _disguised as_ MALEVOLE, _sometime Duke of Genoa_. PIETRO JACOMO, _Duke of Genoa_. MENDOZA, _a minion to the_ Duchess of PIETRO JACOMO. CELSO, _a friend to_ ALTOFRONTO. BILIOSO, _an old choleric marshal_. PREPASSO, _a gentleman-usher_. FERNEZE, _a young courtier, and enamoured on the Duchess_. FERRARDO, _a minion to_ DUKE PIETRO JACOMO. EQUATO, } GUERRINO, } _two courtiers_. PASSARELLO, _fool to_ BILIOSO. AURELIA, _Duchess to_ DUKE PIETRO JACOMO. MARIA, _Duchess to_ DUKE ALTOFRONTO. EMILIA, } BIANCA, } _two ladies attending on_ AURELIA. MAQUERELLE, _an old panderess_. THE SCENE--GENOA. THE MALCONTENT.[349] ACT I. SCENE I. _Palace of the Duke of Genoa._ _The vilest out-of-tune music being heard, enter_ BILIOSO _and_ PREPASSO. _Bil._ Why, how now! are ye mad, or drunk, or both, or what? _Pre._ Are ye building Babylon there? _Bil._ Here's a noise in court! you think you are in a tavern, do you not? _Pre._ You think you are in a brothel-house, do you not?--This room is ill-scented. _Enter One with a perfume._ So, perfume, perfume; some upon me, I pray thee.-- The duke is upon instant entrance: so, make place there! _Enter_ PIETRO, FERRARDO, EQUATO; CELSO _and_ GUERRINO _before_. _Pietro._ Where breathes that music? 10 _Bil._ The discord rather than the music is heard from the malcontent Malevole's chamber. _Fer._ [_calling_] Malevole! _Mal._ [_above, out of his chamber_] Yaugh, god-a-man, what dost thou there? Duke's Ganymede, Juno's jealous of thy long stockings: shadow of a woman, what wouldst, weasel? thou lamb o'court, what dost thou bleat for? ah, you smooth-chinned catamite! _Pietro._ Come down, thou rugged[350] cur, and snarl here; I give thy dogged sullenness free liberty: trot about and bespurtle whom thou pleasest. 21 _Mal._ I'll come among you, you goatish-blooded toderers,[351] as gum into taffata, to fret, to fret: I'll fall like a sponge into water, to suck up, to suck up. [_Howls again._[352]] I'll go to church,[353] and come to you. [_Exit above._