After Aurelian had said what he was able upon the Subject in hand, with a mournful tone and dejected look, he demanded his Doom.  She asked him if he would endeavour to convey her to the Monastery she had told him of?  ’Your commands, Madam, (replied he) ’are Sacred to me; and were they to lay down my Life I would obey them.  With that he would have gone out of the Room, to have given order for his Horses to be got ready immediately; but with a Countenance so full of sorrow as moved Compassion in the tender hearted Incognita.  ’Stay a little Don Hippolito (said she) I fear I shall not be able to undergo the Fatigue of a Journey this Night.—­Stay and give me your Advice how I shall conceal my self if I continue to morrow in this Town.  Aurelian could have satisfied her she was not then in a place to avoid discovery:  But he must also have told her then the reason of it, viz. whom he was, and who were in quest of him, which he did not think convenient to declare till necessity should urge him; for he feared least her knowledge of those designs which were in agitation between him and Juliana, might deter her more from giving her consent.  At last he resolved to try his utmost perswasions to gain her, and told her accordingly, he was afraid she would be disturbed there in the Morning, and he knew no other way (if she had not as great an aversion for him as the Man whom she now endeavour’d to avoid) than by making him happy to make her self secure.  He demonstrated to her,—­that the disobligation to her Parents would be greater by going to a Monastery, since it was only to avoid a choice which they had made for her, and which she could not have so just a pretence to do till she had made one for her self.

A World of other Arguments he used, which she contradicted as long as she was able, or at least willing.  At last she told him, she would consult her Pillow, and in the Morning conclude what was fit to be done.  He thought it convenient to leave her to her rest, and having lock’d her up in his Room, went himself to repose upon a Pallat by Signior Claudio.

In the mean time, it may be convenient to enquire what became of Hippolito.  He had wandered much in pursuit of Aurelian, though Leonora equally took up his Thoughts; He was reflecting upon the oddness and extravagance of his Circumstances, the Continuation of which had doubtless created in him a great uneasiness, when it was interrupted with the noise of opening the Gates of the Convent of St. Lawrence, whither he was arrived sooner than he thought for, being the place Aurelian had appointed by the Lacquey to meet him in.  He wondered to see the Gates opened at so unseasonable an hour, and went to enquire the reason of it from them who were employ’d; but they proved to be Novices, and made him signs to go in, where he might meet with some body allow’d to answer him.  He found the Religious Men all up, and Tapers lighting every where:  at last he follow’d a Friar who was going into the Garden, and asking him