Jasp. I’m sure I tremble for your want of power, More then I should to see Hells dreadfull’st shape, For I must flye the Town.
Witch. Jasper, not so; though I can
raise no Devils,
Yet I Confederate with Rogues and Juglers,
Things that can shape themselves like Elves,
And Goblins—
And often do like Spirits haunt great Houses,
Most times to steal, but many times for mirth;
These I’le soon send for; arise, my Pincula.
Enter a little Devil, and tumbles the Summerset.
Jasp. Heav’ns bless me! save me, good Aunt.
Witch. From what? You Fool, ’tis
but a little Boy,
Which I instruct to carry on my Cheats:
Come, leave your Fooling, I have bus’ness for
you;
Uncase your self, and quickly go and find
Ranter, and Swash, Dive, Fob,
Snap, Gilt, and Pick-lock,
Those are my Archest Devils; as you go
Call upon Dog’rell the Ballad-maker,
and say
I want him strait, bid them be sure
To bring home half a dozen more with them,
For I shall need their help, let e’m not fail,
For money’s to be got.
Devil. ’Tis that will make e’m
come; I’le haste, forsooth.
[Exit.
Jasp. I’m glad it’s gone, for surely it was a Devil, What ever you pretend.
Witch. Thou’rt a Fool:
It was a Boy, I tell thee, and no Devil;
Nor am I a sorceress, though I could wish
To do thee good I was: But ’tis no matter,
Bring thou thy Lord, I’le practice well enough
To make him think all true, that I shall shew him.
Jasp. You now Revive my Drooping Spirits, Aunt,
and
Make my hopes grow strong! Ah sweet Revenge,
How my soul Dances but with thoughts of it;
Assist me, Aunt, to get this mighty Blessing, and
I
Shall dye your slave.
Witch. O rare Boy!
How I rejoyce to see this Spirit in thee,
For ’tis the vertue of our Family
To seek Revenge, not basely swallow wrongs:
Don Sancho De Mensalvo, thy Grandsire
Was for a while Vice-Admiral of Spain,
But then disgrac’d turn’d Pyrate and Reveng’d
With Fire and Sword on all Mankind, the wrongs
He thought the Court had basely plac’d on him;
At last he was betray’d and lost his head,
Thy Father turn’d Bandetto, what he got
I did dispose of for him; but his Fate
Betray’d him too to Death by Execution:
Since when I by these Arts do strive to live,
And thou art forc’d to serve—
That very Lord, who does those Lands
Possess should have been thine.
Jasp. But will e’re long mount to some
higher sphere,
Or dye in the attempt; this Plot, perhaps, may do,
And I thereby obtain some part of my Estate
Again; for if the plotted mischiefs shall succeed,
I’le tell him whom I am, and my resolves, either
To share his Fortunes or Reveal all. Then I will
Rise Don Jasper De Monsalvo and Cheek by Jole,
Ask how Antonio does. Then don’t
forget the names.