Volume I Part 80 (2/2)
SCENE I. _House of _Carlo_._
Enter _Alonzo_ drest ridiculously, meeting _Lovis_, they laugh at each other.
_Lov._ Very _Haunce_ all over, the Taylor has play'd his part, play but yours as well, and I'll warrant you the Wench.
_Alon._ But prithee, why need I act the Fool thus, since _Haunce_ was never seen here?
_Lov._ To make good the Character I always gave of him to my Father; but here he comes, pray be very rude, and very impertinent.
_Alon._ Lord, Lord, how shall I look thus d.a.m.nably set out, and thus in love!
Enter Don _Carlo_.
_Lov._ This, Sir, is Monsieur _Haunce_, your Son that must be.
_Alon._ _Beso los manos, signor_: Is your Name Don _Carlo_? and are you the Gravity of this House? and the Father of Donna _Euphemia_? and are you--
_Car._ Sir, I guess by all these your Demands at once, your Name to be _Myn heer Haunce van Ezel_.
_Alon._ Your Judgment's good; but to my Questions.
_Car._ In truth I have forgot them, there were so many.
_Alon._ Are you he who is to be my Father?
_Car._ 'Tis so negotiated-- and if all Circ.u.mstances concur-- For, Sir, you must conceive, the Consequence of so grand a Conjunction--
_Alon._ Less of your Compliments, Sir, and more of your Daughter, I beseech you. 'Sheart, what a formal c.o.xcomb 'tis.
[Aside.
_Lov._ Prithee give him way. [Aside.
_Alon._ By this Light I'll lose thy Sister first; Why, who can indure the grave approaches to the Matter? 'Dslife, I would have it as I would my Fate, sudden and unexpected.
_Car._ Pray, how long have you been landed?
_Alon._ So, now shall I be plagu'd with nothing but wise Questions, to which I am able to make no Answer. [Aside.] Sir, it is your Daughter that I desire to see impatiently.
_Car._ Have you no Letters from my very good Friend your Father?
_Alon._ What if I have not? cannot I be admitted to your Daughter without a Pa.s.s?
_Car._ O lack, Sir--
_Alon._ But to let you see I come with full Power (tho I am old enough to recommend my self) here is my Commission for what I do.
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