Volume I Part 88 (1/2)
_Hau._ By the Goodness of yours, you should be none, ha, ha, ha. Did I not meet with him there, _Gload_, hah? But pray refresh my Memory, and let me know you; I come to seek a Father amongst you here, one Don _Carlo_.
_Car._ Am I not the Man, Sir?
_Hau._ How the Devil should I know that now, unless by instinct?
_Glo._ The old Man is mad, and must be humour'd.
_Hau._ Cry you Mercy, Sir, I vow I had quite forgot you. Sir, I hope Donna _Euphemia_--
_Car._ Oh, Sir, she's in a much better Humour than when you saw her last, complies with our Desires more than I cou'd hope or wish.
_Hau._ Why look you here again-- I ask'd after her Health, not her Humour.
_Car._ I know not what Arts you made use of, but she's strangely taken with your Conversation and Person.
_Glo._ Truly, Sir, you are mightily beholden to her, that she should have all this good Will to your Person and Conversation before she sees you.
_Hau._ Ay, so I am; therefore, Sir, I desire to see your Daughter, for I shall hardly be so generous as she has been, and be quits with her before I see her.
_Car._ Why, Sir, I hop'd you lik'd her when you saw her last.
_Hau._ Stark mad-- I saw her last! why, what the Devil do you mean?
I never saw her in all my Life, man. Stark mad, as I am true Dutch-- [Aside.
_Car._ A Lover always thinks the time tedious: But here's my Daughter.
Enter _Euphemia_ and _Olinda_.
_Hau._ Ay, one of these must be she: but 'tis a Wonder I should not know which she is by instinct.
[Aside.
[Stands looking very simply on both.
_Euph._ This is not _Alonzo_-- has he betray'd me? [Aside.
_Car._ Go, Sir, she expects you.
_Hau._ Your pardon, Sir; let her come to me, if she will, I'm sure she knows me better than I do her.
_Glo._ How should she know you, Sir?
_Hau._ How? by instinct, you Fool, as all the rest of the House does: don't you, fair Mistress?
_Euph._ I know you--
_Hau._ Yes, you know me; you need not be so coy mun, the old Man has told me all.
_Euph._ What has he told you?-- I am ruin'd. [Aside.