Margarita: 

      Bring in the Dukes meat.

Sanchio: 

      She is most excellent.

Juan de Castro: 

      Most admirable fair as e’r I look’d upon,
      I had rather command her than my Regiment.

Cacafogo: 

      I’ll have a fling, ’tis but a thousand Duckets,
      Which I can cozen up again in ten days,
      And some few Jewels to justifie my Knavery,
      Say, I should marry her, she’ll get more money
      Than all my Usury, put my Knavery to it,
      She appears the most infallible way of Purchase,
      I you’d wish her a size or two stronger for the encounter,
      For I am like a Lion where I lay hold,
      But these Lambs will endure a plaguy load,
      And never bleat neither, that Sir, time has taught us,
      I am so vertuous now, I cannot speak to her,
      The arrant’st shamefac’d Ass, I broil away too.

      [Enter Leon.]

Margarita: 

      Why, where’s this dinner?

Leon: 

      ’Tis not ready, Madam,
      Nor shall not be until I know the Guests too,
      Nor are they fairly welcome till I bid ’em.

Juan de Castro: 

      Is not this my Alferes? he looks another thing;
      Are miracles afoot again?

Margarita: 

Why, Sirrah, why Sirrah, you?
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Leon: 

      I hear you, saucy Woman,
      And as you are my Wife, command your absence,
      And know your duty, ’tis the Crown of modesty.

Duke of Medina: 

      Your Wife?

Leon: 

      Yes good my Lord, I am her Husband,
      And pray take notice that I claim that honour,
      And will maintain it.

Cacafogo: 

      It thou beest her Husband,
      I am determin’d thou shalt be my Cuckold,
      I’ll be thy faithful friend.

Leon: 

      Peace, dirt and dunghil,
      I will not lose my anger on a Rascal,
      Provoke me more, I’ll beat thy blown body
      Till thou rebound’st again like a Tennis-Ball.

Alonzo: 

      This is miraculous.

Sanchio: 

      Is this the Fellow
      That had the patience to become a Fool,
      A flurted Fool, and on a sudden break,
      As if he would shew a wonder to the World,
      Both in Bravery, and Fortune too? 
      I much admire the man, I am astonisht.

Margarita: 

      I’ll be divorced immediately.

Leon: 

      You shall not,
      You shall not have so much will to be wicked. 
      I am more tender of your honour, Lady,
      And of your Age, you took me for a shadow;
      You took me to gloss over your discredit,
      To be your Fool, you had thought you had found a Coxcomb;
      I am innocent of any foul dishonour I mean to ye. 
      Only I will be known to be your Lord now,
      And be a fair one too, or I will fall for’t.