Volume Ii Part 107 (1/2)

_Lau. Julio_!

_Gal_. What of him? [_Aside_.

_Cor_. Being just now arriv'd at _Rome_--

_Lau_. Heavens, arriv'd! [_Aside_.

_Cor_. Sent me to beg the Honour of waiting on you.

_Lau_. Sure, Stranger, you mistake.--

_Cor_. If, Madam, you are _Laura Lucretia_.--

_Gal. Laura Lucretia_! by Heaven, the very Woman he's to marry.

[_Aside_.

_Lau_. This would surprize a Virgin less resolv'd: But what have I to do with ought but Love? [_Aside_.

--And can your Lord imagine this an Hour To make a ceremonious Visit in?

_Gal_. Riddles by Love! or is't some Trick again? [_Aside_.

_Cor_. Madam, where Vows are past, the want of Ceremony may be pardon'd.

_Lau_. I do not use to have my Will disputed, Be gone, and let him know I'll be obey'd.

_Cor_. S'life, she'll out-wit me yet,-- [_Aside_.

Madam, I see this Niceness is not general, --You can except some Lovers.

_Gal_. My pert young Confident, depart, and let your Master know he'll find a better welcome from the fair vain Curtezan, _la Silvianetta_, where he has past the Night, and given his Vows.

_Lau_. Dearly devis'd, and I must take the hint.

[_Aside smiling_.

_Cor_. He knows me sure, and says all this to plague me. [_Aside_.

My Lord, my Master with a Curtezan! he's but just now arriv'd.

_Gal_. A pretty forward saucy lying Boy this; and may do well in time.-- Madam, believe him not, I saw his Master yesterday,--convers'd with him.

--I know him, he's my Friend;--'twas he that parted hence but now, he told me all his Pa.s.sion for a Curtezan scarce half an hour since.

_Cor_. So!

_Lau_. I do not doubt it, Oh, how I love him for this seasonable Lye: --And can you think I'll see a perjur'd Man, [_To_ Cor.

Who gives my interest in him to another?

--Do I not help ye out most artfully?-- [_Aside. Laughing to_ Gal.

_Cor_. I see they are resolv'd to out-face me.

_Gal_. Nay, vow'd to marry her.