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r that you sent for. _Belv._ 'Tis well, and now my dear _Florinda_, let's fly to compleat that mighty Joy we have so long wish'd and sigh'd for.-- Come, _Fred._ you'll follow? _Fred._ Your Example, Sir,'twas ever my Ambition in War, and must be so in Love. _Will._ And must not I see this juggling Knot ty'd? _Belv._ No, thou shalt do us better Service, and be our Guard, lest Don _Pedro's_ sudden Return interrupt the Ceremony. _Will._ Content; I'll secure this Pass. [Ex. _Bel._ _Flor._ _Fred._ and _Val._ Enter _Boy_. _Boy._ Sir, there's a Lady without wou'd speak to you. [To _Will._ _Will._ Conduct her in, I dare not quit my Post. _Boy._ And, Sir, your Taylor waits you in your Chamber. _Blunt._ Some comfort yet, I shall not dance naked at the Wedding. [Ex. _Blunt_ and _Boy_. Enter again the Boy, conducting in _Angelica_ in a masquing Habit and a Vizard, _Will._ runs to her. _Will._ This can be none but my pretty Gipsy-- Oh, I see you can follow as well as fly-- Come, confess thy self the most malicious Devil in Nature, you think you have done my Bus'ness with _Angelica_-- _Ang._ Stand off, base Villain-- [She draws a Pistol and holds to his Breast. _Will._ Hah, 'tis not she: who art thou? and what's thy Business? _Ang._ One thou hast injur'd, and who comes to kill thee for't. _Will._ What the Devil canst thou mean? _Ang._ By all my Hopes to kill thee-- [Holds still the Pistol to his Breast, he going back, she following still. _Will._ Prithee on what Acquaintance? for I know thee not. _Ang._ Behold this Face!-- so lost to thy Remembrance! And then call all thy Sins about thy Soul, And let them die with thee. [Pulls off her Vizard. _Will._ _Angelica!_ _Ang._ Yes, Traitor. Does not thy guilty Blood run shivering thro thy Veins? Hast thou no Horrour at this Sight, that tells thee, Thou hast not long to boast thy shameful Conquest? _Will._ Faith, no Child, my Blood keeps its old Ebbs and Flows still, and that usual Heat too, that cou'd oblige thee with a Kindness, had I but opportunity. _Ang._ Devil! dost wanton with my Pain-- have at thy Heart. _Will._ Hold, dear Virago! hold thy Hand a little, I am not now at leisure to be kill'd-- hold and hear me-- Death, I think she's in earnest. [Aside. _Ang._ Oh if I take not heed, My coward Heart will leave me to his Mercy. [Aside, turning from him. --What have
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