's _Alonzo_, Sir.
_Hau._ Oh the Devil, a thundring Name too; but will this same-- _Alonzo_
make no allowance for necessity?-- I vow 'tis pure necessity in me to
marry you: the old Men being agreed upon the Matter, I am but an
Instrument-- alas, not I,
[Crys.
A very Tool, as they say, so I am.
_Glo._ Lord, Sir, why do you cry? I meant no harm.
_Hau._ No harm, you Rascal-- to say I am valiant.
_Glo._ Why, yes, Sir, and if you would say so too, at worst 'twas but
getting Don _Lovis_ to have fought for you; you know that's a small
courtesy to a Friend.
_Hau._ Faith, now thou art in the right; he'll do his Business for him,
I'll warrant him.
[Wipes his Eyes.
Nay then, Madam, I have Courage, and will to this Don-- this _Alonzo_
you speak of; and if he do not resign you, and consign you too, I'll
make him; yes, make him, do ye see-- If _Lovis_ should refuse me now--
[Aside.
_Glo._ Shaw, Sir, he makes nothing to kill a Man, ten or twenty.
_Euph._ Well, since you are so resolv'd, my Brother will tell you where
to find this _Alonzo_; and tell him, I must marry you to day, for I am
resolv'd not to lie alone tonight.
_Hau._ What would not a Man do for so kind a Mistress?
_Euph._ Well, get you about it strait then, lest my Father's coming
prevent it.
[Exeunt _Euphemia_ and _Olinda_.
_Hau._ I am gone-- but if _Lovis_ should fail--
_Glo._ He would beat you, if he thought you doubted him.
_Hau._ I'll keep my Fears then to my self. [Go out.
SCENE II. _The Street._
Enter _Hippolyta_ drest like a Man, with a Paper.
_Hip._ Thus I dare look abroad again:
Methinks I am not what I was,
My Soul too is all Man;
Where dwells no Tenderness, no womanish Passions.
I cannot sigh, nor weep, nor think of Love,
But as a foolish Dream that's gone and past.
Revenge has took possession of my Soul,
And drove those Shadows thence; and shows me now
Love, in so poor, so despicable a Shape,
So quite devested of his Artful Beauty,
That I'm asham'd I ever was his Votary.
Well, here's my Challenge to _Antonio_;
But how to get it to him is the Question.
Base as he is, he'll not refuse to come,
And since he never saw the wrong'd _Alonzo_,
Sure I may pass for him. Who's here?--
Enter _Haunce_ and _Gload_. She stands aside.
_Hau._ _Gload_, if it were possible I could be sober, and valiant at
once, I should now be provok'd to exercise it: for I cannot find
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