Antinous: 

      What you please to have it.

Erota: 

      As thou art gentle speak those words again.

Antinous: 

      Madam, you have prevail’d; yet give me leave
      Without offence, ere I resign the interest
      Your heart hath in my heart, to prove your secresie.

Erota: 

      Antinous, ’tis the greatest argument
      Of thy affections to me.

Antinous: 

      Madam, thus then,
      My Father stands for certain sums engag’d
      To treacherous Gonzalo; and has morgag’d
      The greatest part of his estate to him;
      If you receive this Morgage, and procure
      Acquittance from Gonzalo to my Father,
      I am what you would have me be.

Erota: 

      You’ll love me then?

Antinous: 

      Provided (Madam) that my Father know not
      I am an Agent for him.

Erota: 

      If I fail
      In this, I am unworthy to be lov’d.

Antinous: 

      Then (with your favour) thus I seal my truth,
280] To day, and Decius witness how unchangingly
      I shall still love Erota.

Erota: 

      Thou hast quickned
      A dying heart, Antinous.

Decius: 

      This is well;
      Much happiness to both.

      [Enter Hyparcha]

Hyparcha: 

      The Lord Gonzalo
      Attends you, Madam.

Erota: 

Comes as we could wish,
Withdraw Antinous, here’s a Closet, where
You may partake his errand; let him enter.

[Enter Gonzalo]

Antinous: 

Madam you must be wary.

[Exit

Erota: 

Fear it not,
I will be ready for him; to entertain him
With smiling Welcome.  Noble Sir, you take
Advantage of the time; it had been fit
Some notice of your presence might have fashion’d
A more prepared state.

Gonzalo: 

      Do you mock me, Madam?

Erota: 

      Trust me, you wrong your judgment, to repute
      My Gratitude a fault; I have examin’d
      Your portly carriage, and will now confess
      It hath not slightly won me.

Gonzalo: 

      The Wind’s turn’d;
      I thought ’twould come to this; it pleas’d us, Madam,
      At our last interview, to mention Love;
      Have you consider’d on’t?

Erota: 

      With more than common
      Content:  but Sir, if what you spoke you meant,
      (As I have cause to doubt) then—­

Gonzalo: 

      What, (sweet Lady?)

Erota: 

      Methinks we should lay by this form of stateliness;
      Loves Courtship is familiar, and for instance,
      See what a change it hath begot in me,
      I could talk humbly now, as Lovers use.