Cacafogo:
Prithee be answered,
thou shalt crave no leave,
I am in my meditations,
do not vex me,
A beaten thing,
but this hour a most bruised thing,
That people had
compassion on it, looked so,
The next Sir Palmerin,
here’s fine proportion,
An Ass, and then
an Elephant, sweet Justice,
There’s
no way left to come at her now, no craving,
If money could
come near, yet I would pay him;
I have a mind
to make him a huge Cuckold,
And money may
do much, a thousand Duckets,
’Tis but
the letting blood of a rank Heir.
Estifania:
’Pray you hear me.
Cacafogo:
I know thou hast
some wedding Ring to pawn now,
Of Silver and
gilt, with a blind posie in’t,
Love and a Mill-horse
should go round together,
Or thy Childs
whistle, or thy Squirrels Chain,
I’ll none
of ’em, I would she did but know me,
Or would this
Fellow had but use of money,
That I might come
in any way.
Estifania:
I am gone, Sir,
And I shall tell
the beauty sent me to ye,
213] The Lady Margarita.
Cacafogo:
Stay I prithee,
What is thy will?
I turn me wholly to ye,
And talk now till
thy tongue ake, I will hear ye.
Estifania:
She would entreat you, Sir,
Cacafogo:
She shall command,
Sir,
Let it be so,
I beseech thee, my sweet Gentlewoman,
Do not forget
thy self.
Estifania:
She does command
then
This courtesie,
because she knows you are noble.
Cacafogo:
Your Mistress by the way?
Estifania:
My natural mistress,
Upon these Jewels,
Sir, they are fair and rich,
And view ’em
right.
Cacafogo:
To doubt ’em is an heresie.
Estifania:
A thousand Duckets,
’tis upon necessity
Of present use,
her husband, Sir, is stubborn.
Cacafogo:
Long may he be so.
Estifania:
She desires withal
a better knowledge of your parts and person,
And when you please
to do her so much honour.
Cacafogo:
Come, let’s dispatch.
Estifania:
In troth I have
heard her say, Sir,
Of a fat man she
has not seen a sweeter.
But in this business,
Sir.
Cacafogo:
Let’s do
it first
And then dispute,
the Ladies use may long for’t.
Estifania:
All secrecy she
would desire, she told me
How wise you are.
Cacafogo:
We are not wise
to talk thus,
Carry her the
gold, I’le look her out a Jewel,
Shall sparkle
like her eyes, and thee another,
Come prethee come,
I long to serve thy Lady,
Long monstrously,
now valor I shall meet ye,
You that dare
Dukes.