Leon:
I see he is hasty, and I would give him leave
179] To beat me soundly if he would take my bond.
Juan de Castro:
What shall I do with this fellow?
Alonzo:
Turn him off,
He will infect
the camp with cowardise,
If he goe with
thee.
Juan de Castro:
About some week
hence Sir,
If I can hit upon
no abler officer,
You shall hear
from me.
Leon:
I desire no better.
[Exit.
[Enter Estifania, and Perez.]
Michael Perez:
You have made
me now too bountifull amends, Lady
For your strict
carriage when you saw me first,
These beauties
were not meant to be conceal’d,
It was a wrong
to hide so sweet an object,
I cou’d
now chide ye, but it shall be thus,
No other anger
ever touch your sweetness.
Estifania:
You appear to
me so honest, and so civil,
Without a blush
Sir, I dare bid ye welcom.
Michael Perez:
Now let me ask your name.
Estifania:
’Tis Estifanie, the heir of this poor place.
Michael Perez:
Poor do you call
it?
There’s
nothing that I cast mine eyes upon,
But shews both
rich and admirable, all the rooms
Are hung as if
a Princess were to dwell here,
The Gardens, Orchards,
every thing so curious:
Is all that plate
your own too?
Estifania:
’Tis but
little,
Only for present
use, I have more and richer,
When need shall
call, or friends compel me use it,
The sutes you
see of all the upper chamber,
Are those that
commonly adorn the house,
I think I have
besides, as fair, as civil,
As any town in
Spain can parallel.
Michael Perez:
Now if she be
not married, I have some hopes.
Are you a maid?
Estifania:
You make me blush
to answer,
I ever was accounted
so to this hour,
And that’s
the reason that I live retir’d Sir.
Michael Perez:
Then would I counsel
you to marry presently,
180] (If I can get her, I am made for ever)
For every year
you lose, you lose a beauty,
A Husband now,
an honest careful Husband,
Were such a comfort:
will ye walk above stairs?
Estifania:
This place will
fit our talk, ’tis fitter far Sir,
Above there are
day-beds, and such temptations
I dare not trust
Sir.
Michael Perez:
She is excellent wise withal too.
Estifania: