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in. _Lov._ If that be all, we'll get you one before you go; that shall be my care. _Hau._ A Pox of your care: well, I will get my self most soundly drunk to Night, to be reveng'd of these two damnable Dons. Come, _Gload_, let us about something in order to't. [Exit with _Gload_. _Euph._ Pray, Sir, be persuaded, he's worth your owning. _Car._ Tell not me of owning; what Fortune has he? _Lov._ His Horse and Arms, the Favour of his Prince, and his Pay. _Car._ His Horse and Arms I wholly dislike, as Implements of War; and that same Princely Favour, as you call it, will buy no Lands; and his Pay he shall have when he can get it. _Lov._ But, Sir, his coming to _Madrid_ was to take possession of a Place the Prince has promis'd him. _Car._ Has promis'd him? what! I shall marry my Daughter to the Promises of e'er a Prince in _Christendom_, shall I? No, no; Promises, quoth ye? _Alon._ Well, Sir, will this satisfy you? [Gives him a Parchment. _Euph._ If it should not, let us consider what next to do. _Alon._ No consideration, _Euphemia_; not so much as that we are married, lest it lessen our Joys. _Car._ Twelve thousand Crowns a Year!-- Sir, I cry you mercy, and wish you joy with my Daughter. _Lov._ So his Courage will down with him now. _Alon._ To satisfy you farther, Sir, read this. [Gives him another Paper. And now, _Euphemia_, prepare your self to receive some gallant Friends of mine, whom you must be acquainted with, and who design to make a merry Night on't. _Euph._ A whole Night, _Alonzo_? _Alon._ By no means, _Euphemia_, for the first too, which if the thoughts of its being part of my Duty do not hinder, will be a pleasant enough to me. _Car._ So considerable an Office at Court too!-- Let me imbrace you, Sir; and tell you how happy I am in so brave Son-in-law. _Alon._ With that assurance, Sir, I'll take a more than ordinary freedom with you, and teach _Euphemia_ a franker way of living, than what a native _Spaniard_ would have allow'd her. _Car._ She shall be what sort of Wife you'll have her. Enter Servant, after a noise of Musick. _Alon._ What Musick's that? _Serv._ It waits upon some Ladies and Gentlemen who ask for you, Sir. _Alon._ Wait them in, they are those Friends of mine I told you of. [He goes and brings them in. Enter _Marcel_ and _Clarinda_, _Silvio_ and _Cleonte_, _Antonio_ and _Hippolyta_, _Dormida_ and _Francisca_; all sa
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