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SCENE II.

CARLOS in his study, with DoN LEWIS, and

SANCHO.

D. Lew. Nay, you are undone.

Ant. I shall find a stick for you, rogue, I shall. Charles, how dost thou do? Come, hither, boy.

Car. Your pleasure, sir?

Ant. Nay, no great matter, child; only to

Car. Then I must study, sir, to bear my for- put your name here a little, to this bit of parch

tune.

D. Lew. Have you no greater feeling? San. You were sensible of the great book, sir, when it fell upon your head; and won't the ruin of your fortune stir you?

Car. Will he have my books, too?

D. Lew. No, no; he has a book, a fine one, too, called "The Gentleman's Recreation; or, The Secret Art of getting Sons and Daughters: such a creature! a beauty in folio! Would thou hadst her in thy study, Carlos, though it were but to new-clasp her!

San. He has seen her, sir.
D. Lew. Well, and—and-

San. He flung away his book, sir.

D. Lew. Did he faith? would he had flung away his humour, too, and spoke to her.

Car. Must my brother then have all?
D. Lew. All, all.

San. All that your father has, sir.

Car. And that fair creature, too?

San. Aye, sir.

D. Lew. Hey!

Car. He has enough, then.

[Sighing.

D. Lew. He have her, Charles! why would, would, that is- -hey!

Car. May not I see her, sometimes, and call her sister? I'll do her no wrong.

D. Lew. I can't bear this! 'Sheart, I could cry for madness! Flesh and fire! do but speak to her, man.

Car. I cannot, sir; her look requires something of that distant awe, words of that soft respect, and yet such force and meaning, too, that I should stand confounded to approach her, and yet I long to wish her joy. Oh, were I born to give it, too!

D. Lew. Why, thou shalt wish her joy, boy; faith she is a good-humoured creature; she'll take it kindly.

Car. Do you think so, uncle?

D. Lew. I'll to her, and tell of you.

Car. Do sir-Stay, uncle-will she not think me rude? I would not for the world offend her.

D. Lew. 'Fend a fiddle-stick-let me aloneI'll—I'll—

Car. Nay, but, sir! dear uncle!
D. Lew. A hum! a hum!

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ment: I think you write a reasonable good hand, Charles.

Car. Pray, sir, to what use may it be? Ant. Only to pass your title in the land I have to your brother Clodio.

Car. Is it no more, sir?

Law. That's all, sir.

Ant. No, no, 'tis nothing else; look you, you shall be provided for; you shall have what books you please, and your means shall come in without your care, and you shall always have a servant to wait on you.

Car. Sir, I thank you; but if you please, I had rather sign it before the good company below; it being, sir, so frank a gift, 'twill be some small compliment to have done it before the lady, too: there I shall sign it cheer fully, and wish my brother fortune.

Ant. With all my heart, child; it is the same thing to me.

Car. You'll excuse me, sir, if I make no great stay with you.

Ant. Do as thou wilt; thou shalt do any thing thou hast a mind to.

[Exeunt.

San. Now has he undone himself for ever; ods-heart, I'll down into the cellar, and be stark drunk for anger.

[Exit.

SCENE III.-Changes to a dining-room: a large table spread.

Enter CHARINO with ANGELINA, CLODIO, DON
LEWIS, Ladies, Priests, and a Lawyer.
Law. Come, let him bring his son's hand, and
all's done. Are you ready, sir?

Priest. Sir, I shall dispatch them presently, immediately; for, in truth, I am an hungry. Clo. Egad, I warrant you, the priest and I could both fall to without saying graceHa, you little rogue! what, you think it long too?

Ang. I find no fault, sir; better things were well done, than done too hastily-Sir, you look melancholy. [TO DON LEWIS.

D. Lew. Sweet-smelling blossom! Ah, that I had the gathering of thee: I would stick thee in the bosom of a pretty young fellow-Ah, thou hast missed a man (but that he is so bewitched to his study, and knows no other misheaded puppytress than his mind) so far above this feather

Ang. Can he talk, sir?

D. Lew. Like an angel-to himself—the devil a word to a woman: his language is all upon the high business; to heaven, and heaven

ly wonders, to nature, and her dark and secret

causes.

Ang. Does he speak so well there, sir? D. Lew. To admiration! Such curiosities! but he can't look a woman in the face; if he does, he blushes like fifteen.

Ang. But a little conversation, methinks1. Lew. Why, so I think, too; but the boy s bewitched, and the devil can't bring him to it shall I try if I can get him to wish you joy?

Ang. I shall receive it as becomes his sister, sir.

Clo. Look, look, old Testy will fall in love by and by; he's hard at it, split me!

Cha. Let him alone; she'll fetch him about, I warrant you.

Clo. So, here my father comes! Now priest. Hey, my brother too! that's a wonder; broke like a spirit from his cell.

Enter ANTONIO and CARLOS.

D. Lew. Odso, here he is; that's he; a little inclining to the lean, or so, but his understanding's the fatter for it.

Ant. Come, Carlos, 'twere your desire to see my fair daughter and the good company, and to seal before them all, and give your brother joy.

Cha. He does well; I shall think the better of him as long as I live.

Car. Is this the lady, sir?

Ant. Ay, that's your sister, Charles.

Car. Forbid it, love! [Aside.] Do you not

think she'll grace our family?

Ant. No doubt on it, sir.

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D. Lew. Stand clear! I do-and that sweet creature too, I hope. Ang. Too well,

fear.

Ant. Come, come, to the writing, Charles; prithee, leave thy studying, man.

Car. I'll leave my life first; I study now to be a man; before, what man was, was but my argument; -I am now on the proof;

I find, I feel myself a manit, too.

-nay, I fear D. Lew. He has it! he has it! my boy's in for it.

Clo. Come, come, will you

D. Lew. Stand out of the way, puppy.

[Interposing with his back to CLODIO. Car. Whence is it, fair, that while I offer speech to you, my thoughts want words, my words their free and honest utterance? Why is it thus I tremble at your touch, and fear your frown, as would a frighted child the dreadful lightning? Yet should my dearest friend or brother dare to check my vain deluded wishes, Oh,

should turn, and tear him like an offended lion-Is this, can it, must it be in a sister's power?

Clo. Come, come, will you sign, brother?
D. Lew. Time enough, puppy,

Cur. O! if you knew with what precipitated

Car. Should I not thank her for so unmerited haste you hurry on a deed, that makes you blesa grace?

Ant. Ay, and welcome, Charles.

D. Lew. Now, my boy; give her a gentle twist by the finger; lay your lips softly, softly, close and plump to her. [Apart to CARLOS.

Car. Pardon a stranger's freedom, lady[Salutes ANGELINA.] Dissolving softness! Oh, the drowning joy!-Happy, happy he, that sips eternally such nectar down, that, unconfined, may lave and wantou there in sateless draughts of ever-springing beauty!-But you, fair creature, share by far the higher joy; if, as I've read, (nay, now an sure) the sole delight of love lies only in the power to give.

Ang. How near his thoughts agree with mine! this the mere scholar I was told of! [Aside.] I find, sir, you have experienced love; you seem acquainted with the passion.

Car. I've had indeed, a dead pale glimpse in theory, but never saw the enlivening light before.

Ang. Ha, before!

[Aside. Ant. Well, these are very fine compliments, Charles; but you say nothing to your brother yet.

VOL. II.

sed or miserable tor ever, even yet, near as you are to happiness, you'd find no danger in a noment's pause.

Clo. I say, will you sign, brother?

Car. Away, I have no time for trifles! room for an elder brother.

D. Lew. Why, did not I bid thee stand out of the way now?

Ant. Ay, but this is trifling, Charles! Come, come, your hand, man.

Car. Your pardon, sir, I cannot seal yet; had you only shewed me land, I had resigned it free, and proud to have bestowed it to your pleasure : 'tis care, 'tis dirt, and trouble: but you have opened to me such a treasure, such unimagined mines of solid joy, that I perceive my temper stubborn now, ev'n to a churlish avarice of love? -Heaven direct my fortune!

Ant. And so you won't part with your title, sir Car. Sooner with my soul of reason, be a plant, a beast, a fish, a fly, and only make the number of things up, than yield one foot of land if she be tied to it.

Cha. I don't like this; he talks oddly, methinks.

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[Aside.

Ang. Yet with a bravery of soul might warm | Sooner shall bodies leave their shade; so fixed, the coldest heart. so rooted here, is every growing thought of her.. Clo. Gads me! what, now its troublesome again, is it?

Clo. Pshaw, pox! prithee, brother, you had better think of those things in your study, man! Car. Go you and study, for 'tis time, young brother: turn o'er the tedious volumes I have read; think, and digest them well! the wholesomest food for green consumptive minds; nor dare to dream of marriage-vows, till thou hast taught thy soul, like mine, to love—Is it for thee to wear a jewel of this inestimable worth? D. Lew. Ah, Charles! [Kisses him.] What say you to the scholar now, chicken?

Ang. A wonder!Is this gentleman your brother, sir! [To CLODIO. Clo. Hey! No, my-Madam, not quite that is, he is a little a-kin by the- -Pox on him! would he were buried- -I can't tell what to say to him, split me!

Ant. Positively, you will not seal then, ha? Car. Neither should not blindly say I will not seal-Let me entreat a moment's pause- for, even yet, perhaps I may. [Sighing. Ang. Forbid it, fortune! Ant. O, may you so, sir!

Clo. Ay! sir, hey! What, you are come to yourself I find, 'sheart!

Cha. Ay, ay, give him a little time, he'll think better on't, I warrant you.

Car. Perhaps, fair creature, I have done you wrong, whose plighted love and hope went hand in hand together; but, I conjure you, think my life were hateful after so base, so barbarous an act as parting them: What! to lay waste at once for ever all the gay blossoms of your forward fortune! O forbid it, Love! forbid it, Nature and Humanity! I have no land, no fortune, life, or being, while your necessity or peace requires thein. Say! or give me need to think your sinallest hope depends on my objected ruin; my ruin is my safety there; my fortune, or my life resigned with joy, so your account of happy hours were thence but raised to any added number.

Cha. Why ay! there's some civility in this. Clo. The fellow really talks very prettily. Car. But if, in bare compliance to a father's will, you now but suffer marriage, or, what's worse, give it as an extorted bond, imposed on the simplicity of your youth, and dare confess you wish some honest friend would save, or free you from its hard conditions; I then again have land, have life, and resolution, waiting still upon your happier fortune.

Clo. Ha, ha! pert enough, that! 'Egad! I long to see what this will come to!

Priest. In truth, unless somebody is married presently, the dinner will be spoiled, and then no body will be able to eat it.

Ant. Brother, I say, let's remove the lady.
Cha. Force her from him!

Car. 'Tis too late! I have a figure here!

Car. Consider, fair one, now's the very crisis of our fate: you cannot have it, sure, to ask, if honour be the parent of my love: if you can love for love, and think your heart rewarded there, like two young vines we'll curl together, circling our souls in never-ending joy: we'll spring together, and we'll bear one fruit; one joy shall make us smile, one sorrow mourn: one age go with us, one hour of death shall close our eyes, and one cold grave shall hold us happy--Say but you hate me not! O speak! Give but the softest breath to that transporting thought!

Ang. Need I then speak, to say, I am far from hating you I would say more, but there is nothing fit for me to say.

Cha. I'll bear it no longer

Ang. On this you may depend, I cannot like that marriage was proposed me.

Car. How shall my soul requite this goodness? Cha. Beyond patience! this is downright insolence! roguery! rape!

Ant. Part them.

Clo. Ay, ay! part them, part them.
D. Lew. Doll! dum! dum!-

[Sings, and draws in their defence. Cha. Call an officer! I'll have them forced asunder.

tion here.

Ang. Nay, then I am reduced to take protec-
[Goes to CARLOS.
Cur. O ecstacy of heart! transporting joy!
D. Lew. Lorra! Dorrol! Loll!

[Sings and dances. Cha. A plot! a plot against my honour! Murder! Treason! Gunpowder! I'll be revenged! Ant. Sir, you shall have satisfaction. Cha. I'll be revenged!

Ant. Carlos, I say, forego the lady.

Car. Never, while I have sense of being, life, or motion.

Clo. You won't! Gadso! What, then I find I must lug out upon this business? Allons! the lady, sir!

D. Lew. Lorra! Dorrol! Loll!

[Presenting his point to CLODIO. Cha. I'll have his blood! by all the scars and wounds of honour in my family! Exit CHAR. Car. Hold, uncle! come, brother! sheath your anger- -I'll do my best to satisfy you allbut first I would intreat a blessing here.

Ant. Out of my doors! thou art no son of mine. [Exit ANT.

Car. I am sorry I have lost a father, sir—— For you, brother, since once you had a seeming hope in lieu of what you've lost, half of my birthright

Clo. No halves! no halves, sir! the whole lady! Car. Why, then, the whole, if you can like the terms.

Clo. What terms? What terms? Come, quick, quick.

Car. The first is this- [Snatches DoN LEWIS's sword.] Win her, and wear her; for, on my soul, unless my body fail, my mind shall never yield thee up a thought in love.

D. Lew. Gramercy, Charles! To him, boy! E'gad, this love has made a man of him.

Car. This is the first good sword I ever poised in anger yet; 'tis sharp I'm sure; if it but hold my putting home, I shall so hunt your insolence!

I feel the fire of ten strong spirits in me: wert thou a native fencer, in so fair a cause, I thus should hold thee at the worst defiance.

Clo. Look you, brother, take care of yourself; I shall certainly be in you the first thrust; but if you had rather, d'ye see, we'll talk a little calmly about this business.

Car. Away, trifler! I would be loth to prove thee a coward, too.

Clo. Coward! why, then really, sir, if you please, midriff's the word, brother; you are a son of a whore-Allons!

[They fight, and CLODIO is disarmed. Car. There, sir, take your life--and mend it

Ang. Are you wounded, sir?

Car. Only in my fears for you: how shall we bestow us, uncle?

D. Lew. Positively, we are not safe here, this lady being an heiress. Follow me. Čar. Good angels guard us!

[Exeunt with ANG. Clo. Gadso! I never fenced so ill in all my life-never in my life, split ine!

Enter MONSIEUR.

Mons. Sire, here be de trompete, de hauteboy, de musique, de maitre danser, dat deseer to know if you sal be please to 'ave de masque begin.

Clo. Ha! what does this puppy say now?
Mons. Sire, de musique.

Clo. Why, ay-that's true-but-tell them- -plague on them, tell them they are not ready tuned.

Mons. Sire, dare is all tune, all prepare.

Clo. Ay! Why, then, tell them that my brother's wise again, and has spoiled all, and I am bubbled, and so I shan't be married till next time but I have fought with him, and he has disarmed me; and so he won't release the land, nor give me my mistress again; and I—I am undone, that's all, [Exeunt.

SCENE IV.

Enter CHARINO, ANTONIO, Officers and Servants. Cha. Officer, do your duty : I say, seize them all.

Ant. Carry them this minute before aHow now! What! all fled?

Cha. Ha! my girl! my child! my heiress! I am abused! I am cheated! I am robbed! I am ravished! murdered! and flung in a ditch!

Ant. Who let them out? Which way went they, villains?

Serv. Sir, we had no order to stop them; but they went out at the door not six minutes ago.

Cha. I'll pursue them with bills, warrants, actions, writs, and malice: I'm a lawyer, sir; they shall find I understand ruin.

Ant. Nay, they shall be found, sir: Run you to the port, sirrah, see if any ships are going off, and bring us notice immediately.

[Exeunt Officers and Servants. Enter SANCHо drunk.

San. Ban, ban, Cac-caliban. [Sings. Ant. Here comes a rogue, I'll warrant, knows the bottom of all! Where's my son, villain? San. Son, sir!

Cha. Where's my daughter, sirrah?
San. Daughter, sir!

Cha. Ay, my daughter, rascal!

Sun. Why, sir, they told me just now, sirthat she's-she's run away.

is

Ant. Dog, where's your master?

San. My master! why, they say he is-
Ant. Where, sirrah?

San. Why, he is-he is-gone along with her.
Ant. Death! you dog, discover him, or
San. Sir, I will—I will.

Ant. Where is he, villain!

San. Where, sir? Why, to be sure, he is――he -upon my soul, I don't know, sir.

Ant. No more trifling, rascal!

San. If I do, sir, I wish this may be my poi

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Cha. Death and furies!

Ant. Whither were they bound, sirrah?

Serv. Sir, I could not discover that: but they were full before the wind, with a very smart gale.

Ant. What shall we do, brother?

Clo. Be as smart as they, sir; follow them, follow them.

Cha. Send to the port this moment, and secure a ship; I'll pursue them through all the elements. Clo. I'll follow you by the northern star. Ant. Run to the port again, rogue; hire a ship, and tell them they must hoist sail immediately.

Enter MONSIEUR.

Clo. And you, rogue, run to my chamber, fill

up my snuff-box-Cram it hard, you dog, and
be here again before you get thither.
Ant. What, will you take nothing else, boy?

SCENE I-Lisbon.

Clo. Nothing, sir, but snuff and opportunitywe're in haste. Allons! hey! Je vole. [Exeunt.

ACT III.

Enter ELVIRA, DON DUART, and Governor. Elv. DEAR brother, let me intreat you, stay; why will you provoke your danger?

D. Du. Madain, my honour must be satisfied. Elv. That's done already, by the degrading blow you gave him,

Gov. Pray, niece, what is it has incensed him?
Elv. Nothing but a needless quarrel.
Gov. I am sorry for him-To whom is all this
fury, nephew?

D. Du. To you, sir, or any man that dares oppose me.

Gov. Ha! some prize brought in.

Sail. Sir, she's yours; you fought, and well deserve her.

Gov. Noble Don Manuel! welcome on shore! I see you are fortunate; for I presume that's some uncommon prize.

D. Man. She is, indeed-These ten years I have known the seas, and many rough engagements there; but never saw so small a bark so long defended, with such incredible valour, and by two men scarce armed, too.

Gov. Is it possible?

D. Man. Nay, and their contempt of death, when taken, exceeds even all they acted in their freedom.

Gov. Pray tell us, sir.

Gov. Come, you are too boisterous, sir; and this vain opinion of your courage, taken on your late success in duelling, makes you daily shunned D. Man. When they were brought aboard us, by men of civil conversation. For shame, leave both disarmed and ready to be fettered, they off these senseless brawls; if you are valiant, as looked as they had sworn never to take the bread you would be thought, turn out your courage to of bondage, and on a sudden snatching up their the wars; let your king and country be the bet-swords, (the younger taking first from this fair ter for't. maid a farewell only with his eyes) both leapt into the sea.

D. Du. Yes, so I might be general- -Sir, no man living shall command me.

Gov. Sir, you shall find that here in Lisbon I will: I'm every hour followed with complaints of your behaviour from men of almost all conditions; and my authority, which you presume will bear you out, because you are my nephew, no longer shall protect you now: expect your next disorder to be punished with as much severity as his that is a stranger to my blood.

D. Du. Punish me! you, nor your office, dare not do it.

Gov. Away! Justice dares do any thing she ought.

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D. Man. Take comfort, fair one; perhaps you yet again may see thein; they were not quite a league from shore, and, with such strength and courage broke through the rolling waves, they could not fail of life and safety.

Elv. Brother, this brutal temper must be cast off: when you can master that, you shall gladly Ang. In that last hope, I brook a wretched becommand my fortune. But if you still persist, ex-ing; but if they're dead, my woes will find so pect my prayers and vows for your conversion on- many doors to let out life, I shall not long surly; but never means, or favour.

D. Du. Fire! and furies! I'm tutored here
like a mere school-boy! Women shall judge of
injuries in honour?- For you, sir-I was born
free, and will not curb my spirit, nor is it for
your authority to tempt it: give me the usage of
a man of honour, or 'tis not your government
shall protect you.
[Exit.
Gov. I am sorry to see this, niece, for your
sake.

Elo. Would he were not my brother!
Enter DON MANUEL, and Sailors, with

ANGELINA.

vive them.

Elv. Alas, poor lady! Come, sir, misery but weeps the more when she is gazed on-we trouble her."

Gov. I wait on you; your servant, sir

[Exeunt ELVIRA and GOVERNOR. D. Man. Now, my fair captive, though I confess you beautiful, yet give me leave to own my heart has long been in another's keeping; therefore, the favour I am about to ask, you may, at least, hear with safety.

Ang. This has engaged me, sir, to hear.

D. Man. These three years have I honourably loved a noble lady; her name Louisa, the beau

D. Man. Divide the spoil amongst you; this teous niece of great Ferrara's duke: her person fair captive I only challenge for myself,

and fortune uncontrouled, sole mistress of her

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