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_, where hast thou left this Master of thine? _Glo._ At the Inn, Sir, in as lamentable a Pickle, as if he were still in the Storm; recruiting his emptyed Stomach with Brandy, and railing against all Women-kind for your Sister's sake, who has made him undertake this Voyage. _Lo._ Well, I'll come to him, go home before. [Ex. _Gload_. _Alon._ Prithee what thing is this? _Lo._ Why, 'tis the Cashier to this Squire I spoke of, a Man of Business, and as wise as his Master, but the graver Coxcomb of the two. But this Lady, _Alonzo_, who is this Lady thou speak'st of? shall not I know her? We were wont to divide the Spoils of Beauty, as well as those of War between us. _Alon._ O but this is no such Prize, thou wouldst hardly share this with the Danger, there's Matrimony in the Case. _Lo._ Nay, then keep her to thy self, only let me know who 'tis that can debauch thee to that scandalous way of Life; is she fair? will she recompense the Folly? _Alon._ Faith, I know not, I never saw her yet, but 'tis the Sister of _Marcel_, whom we both knew last Summer in _Flanders_, and where he and I contracted such a Friendship, that without other Consideration he promis'd me _Hippolyta_, for that's his Sister's Name. _Lo._ But wo't thou really marry her? _Alon._ I consider my Advantage in being allied to so considerable a Man as _Ambrosio_, her Father; I being now so unhappy as not to know my Birth or Parents. _Lo._ I have often heard of some such thing, but durst not ask the Truth of it. _Alon._ 'Tis so, all that I know of my self is, that a _Spanish_ Souldier, who brought me up in the Army, dying, confest I was not his Son, (which till then I believ'd) and at the Age of twelve left me to shift for my self: the Fortune he inrich'd me with, was his Horse and Arms, with a few Documents how to use them, as I had seen him do with good success: This Servant, [Points to _Pedro_] and a Crucifix of Value. And from one Degree to another, I arriv'd to what you knew me, Colonel of the Prince's Regiment, and the Glory of his Favour. _Lo._ Honour is the Child of Virtue, and finds an Owner every where. _Alon._ Oh, Sir, you are a Courtier, and have much the odds of a Souldier in Parleys of this nature: but hither I am come-- _Lo._ To be undone-- Faith, thou look'st ill upon't. _Alon._ I confess I am not altogether so brisk as I should have been upon another Occasion; you know, _Lovis_, I have been us'd to Christian Lib
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