me Pleasure.
_Brav._ Madam, the last I knew thro all his disguises
{t}o be Don _Pedro_, Nephew to the General, and who was
{w}ith him in _Pampelona_.
_Pedro._ Ha! _Florinda_! Sure 'tis _Antonio_. [_aside.
_lower-case "aside" in original_
[Gives him the Jewel, which is her Picture, and Ex. He gazes
after her.
_text reads "he gazes"_
_Scene changes to another Street. Enter _Florinda_._
_here and below, new scenes are unnumbered_

Critical Notes

V.i
p. 101 _Incle_
p. 101 _upse_
_in the body text, the word "upse" occurs before the word "Incle"_

Epilogue
p. 107 ... and preceeded these by the one hexameter
_spelling "preceeded" unchanged_

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THE ROVER; OR,

THE BANISH'D CAVALIERS.

PART II.

[Transcriber's Note:

Entrances and bracketed stage directions were printed in _italics_,
with proper names in roman type. The overall _italic_ markup has been
omitted for readability.]

ARGUMENT.

The exiled cavaliers, Willmore the Rover, Shift and Hunt, two officers,
Ned Blunt and Fetherfool, his friend, have arrived at Madrid, where they
are welcomed by Beaumond, nephew to the English Ambassador. Both
Willmore and Beaumond are enamoured of La Nuche, a beautiful courtezan,
whilst Shift and Hunt are respectively courting a Giantess and a Dwarf,
two Mexican Jewesses of immense wealth, newly come to Madrid with an old
Hebrew, their uncle and guardian. Beaumond is contracted to Ariadne, who
loves Willmore. Whilst the Rover is complimenting La Nuche, some
Spaniards, headed by Don Carlo, an aged admirer of the lady, attempt to
separate the pair. During the scuffle the ladies enter a church, where
they are followed by the gallants. A little later Fetherfool comes to
terms with La Nuche's duenna, Petronella, whilst Willmore makes love to
Ariadne. Shift next informs Willmore of the arrival of a celebrated
mountebank, and the Rover resolves to take the quack's place, which
he does in effective disguise. Fetherfool and Blunt visit the
pseudo-doctor's house, where the Giantess and Dwarf are lodged to be
converted to a reasonable size by his medicaments; covetous of their
great fortunes, the coxcombs also begin to court the two Jewesses. La
Nuche comes to consult the mountebank and meets Ariadne attired as a
boy, and Willmore in his own dress. Ariadne, who has a