_Mass._ Yes, Lady,[211] but the fates will not permit (As gems once lost are seldom or never found) I should convey it with me. Sweet, good-night! [_Aside._] She bends to me: there's my fall again. [_Exit._ _Isa._ He's gone! That lightning that a while doth strike Our eyes with amaz'd brightness, and on a sudden Leaves us in prison'd darkness! Lust, thou art high; My similes[212] may well come from the sky. Anna, Anna! _Enter_ ANNA. _Anna._ Madam, did you call? 209 _Isa._ Follow yond stranger; prithee learn his name. We may hereafter thank him. [_Exit_ ANNA.] How I dote! Is he not a god That can command what other men would win With the hard'st advantage? I must have him, Or, shadow-like, follow his fleeting steps. Were I as Daphne, and he followed chase, (Though I rejected young Apollo's love, And like a dream beguile his wand'ring steps;) Should he pursue me through the neighbouring grove, Each cowslip-stalk should trip a willing fall, 220 Till he were mine, who till then am his thrall. Nor will I blush, since worthy is my chance:[213] 'Tis said that Venus with a satyr slept; And how much short came she of my fair aim! Then, Queen of Love, a precedent I'll be, To teach fair women learn to love of me. Speak, music: what's his name? _Enter_ ANNA. _Anna._ Madam, it was the worthy Count Massino. _Isa._ Blest be thy tongue! The worthy count indeed, The worthiest of the worthies. Trusty Anna, 230 Hast thou pack'd up those monies, plate, and jewels I gave direction for? _Anna._ Yes, madam; I have truss'd up them, that many a proper man has been truss'd up for. _Isa._ I thank thee. Take the wings of night, Beloved secretary, and post with them to Pavia;[214] There furnish up some stately palace Worthy to entertain the king of love: Prepare it for my coming and my love's. Ere Phoebus' steeds once more unharness'd be, 240 Or ere he sport with his belovèd Thetis, The silver-footed goddess of the sea, We will set forward. Fly like the northern wind, Or swifter, Anna,--fleet like to my mind. _Anna._ I am just of your mind, madam. I am gone. [_Exit_ ANNA.