_Pier._ Spoke[133] heartily, i'faith, good mariner. O, we will mount in triumph; soon at night, I'll set his head up. Let's think where. 250 _Bal._ Upon his shoulders, that's the fittest place for it. If it be not as fit as if it were made for them, say,-- Balurdo, thou art a sot, an ass. _Enter_ MELLIDA _in Pages attire, dancing_. _Pier._ Sprightly, i'faith. In troth he's somewhat like My daughter Mellida: but, alas! poor soul, Her honour's[134] heels, God knows, are[n't] half so light. _Mel._ [_Aside._] Escaped I am, spite of my father's spite. [_Exit._ _Pier._ Ho, this will warm my bosom ere I sleep. _Enter_ FLAVIA _running_. _Fla._ O my Lord, your daughter---- _Pier._ Ay, ay, my daughter's safe enough, I warrant thee.-- 260 This vengeance on the boy will lengthen out My days unmeasuredly. It shall be chronicled in time to come, Piero Sforza slew Andrugio's son. _Fla._ Ay, but, my Lord, your daughter---- _Pier._ Ay, ay, my good wench, she is safe enough. _Fla._ O, then, my Lord, you know she's run away. _Pier._ Run away, away! how run away? _Fla._ She's vanish'd in an instant, none knows whither. _Pier._ Pursue, pursue, fly, run, post, scud away! 270 _Feli._ [_Sings._] "_And was not good king Salomon_," &c. _Pier._ Fly, call, run, row, ride, cry, shout, hurry, haste! Haste, hurry, shout, cry, ride, row, run, call, fly, Backward and forward, every way about! _Mal[e]detta fortuna che[135] dura sorte! Che farò, che dirò, pur fugir tanto mal!_ _Cast._ 'Twas you that struck me even now: was it not? _Feli._ It was I that struck you even now. _Cast._ You bastinadoed me, I take it. _Feli._ I bastinadoed you, and you took it. 280 _Cast._ 'Faith, sir, I have the richest tobacco in the court for you; I would be glad to make you satisfaction, if I have wronged you. I would not the sun should set upon your anger; give me your hand. _Feli._ Content, faith; so thou'lt breed no more such lies. I hate not man, but man's lewd qualities. [_Exeunt._ [112] So the old eds., but I suspect that the true reading is "traverse light," _i.e._, light cast slant-wise. [113] Wanton excesses. [114] See note 2, p. 13. [115] "Passing passing good."--So ed. 1602.--Ed. 1633, "passing good." [116] Fiddle-string.--Here applied to Castilio's squeaky voice. [117] Old eds. "most loved." [118] So ed. 1602.--Ed. 1633 "courted."--Dilke gives "accosted"; but Spenser has the word _accourt_ in Book II. of the _Faerie Queene_. [119] Old eds. "then." [120] Plot of the play.