Leon:
I will not, alas I never knew my self sufficiently.
Margarita:
Nor must not now.
Leon:
I’le be a Dog to please ye.
Margarita:
Indeed you must fetch and carry as I appoint ye.
Leon:
I were to blame else.
Margarita:
Kiss me again;
a strong fellow,
There is a vigor
in his lips: if you see me
Kiss any other,
twenty in an hour Sir,
You must not start,
nor be offended.
Leon:
No, if you kiss
a thousand I shall be contented,
It will the better
teach me how to please ye.
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Altea:
I told ye Madam.
Margarita:
’Tis the man I wisht for; the less you speak.
Leon:
I’le never
speak again Madam,
But when you charge
me, then I’le speak softly too.
Margarita:
Get me a Priest,
I’le wed him instantly,
But when you are
married Sir, you must wait
Upon me, and see
you observe my laws.
Leon:
Else you shall hang me.
Margarita:
I’le give
ye better clothes when you deserve ’em,
Come in, and serve
for witness.
Omnes:
We shall Madam.
Margarita:
And then away
toth’ city presently,
I’le to
my new house and new company.
Leon:
A thousand crowns are thine, and I am a made man.
Altea:
Do not break out too soon.
Leon:
I know my time
wench.
[Exeunt.
[Enter Clara, and Estifania with a paper.]
Clara:
What, have you caught him?
Estifania:
Yes.
Clara:
And do you find
him
A man of those
hopes that you aim’d at?
Estifania:
Yes too,
And the most kind
man, and the ablest also
To give a wife
content, he is sound as old wine,
And to his soundness
rises on the pallat,
And there’s
the man; find him rich too Clara.
Clara:
Hast thou married him?
Estifania:
What dost thou
think I fish without a bait wench?
I bob for fools?
he is mine own, I have him,
I told thee what
would tickle him like a trout,
And as I cast
it so I caught him daintily,
And all he has
I have ’stowed at my devotion.
Clara:
Does thy Lady
know this? she is coming now to town,
Now to live here
in this house.
Estifania:
Let her come,
She shall be welcom,
I am prepar’d for her,
She is mad sure
if she be angry at my fortune,
For what I have
made bold.