rnando_, and _Gaspero_.]

Arcanes:

My Lord--

Cassilanes:

_Arcanes_,
I know them both: _Fernando_, as you are
A man of greatness, I should under-value
The right my sword hath fought for, to observe
Low-fawning complements, but as you are
A Captive and a stranger, I can love you,
And must be kind. You are welcom.

Fernando:

'Tis the all
Of my ambition.

Gaspero:

And for proof how much
He truly honours your heroick vertues,
The Senate on his importunity,
Commend him to your Lordships guard.

Cassilanes:

For what?

Gaspero:

During the time of his abode in _Candy_,
To be your houshold guest.

Fernando:

Wherein my Lord,
You shall more make me debtor to your nobleness,
Than if you had return'd me without ransom.

Cassilanes:

Are you in earnest Sir?

Fernando:

My sute to the Senate
Shall best resolve you that.

Cassilanes:

Come hither Secretarie,
Look that this be no trick now put upon me:
267] For if it be--Sirrah--

Gaspero:

As I have troth
(My Lord) it only is a favour granted
Upon _Fernando's_ motion, from himself:
Your Lordship must conceive, I'de not partake
Ought, but what should concern your honour; Who
Has been the prop, our Countries shield, and safety,
But the renowned _Cassilane_?

Cassilanes:

Applause?
Is _Gaspero_--puff--nothing--why, young Lord,
Would you so much be sequester'd from those
That are the blazing Comets of the time,
To live a solitary life with me?
A man forsaken? all my hospitality
Is now contracted to a few; these two,
The tempest-wearied Souldier, and this Virgin;
We cannot feast your eyes with Masques and Revels,
Or Courtly Anticks; the sad Sports we riot in,
Are tales of foughten fields, of Martial scars,
And things done long ago, when men of courage
Were held the best, not those well-spoken Youths,
Who only carry Conquest in their tongues:
Now stories of this nature are unseasonable
To entertain a great Duke's Son with.

Fernando:

Herein
Shall my Captivity be made my happiness,
Since what I lose in freedom, I regain
(With int'rest) by conversing with a Souldier,
So matchless for experience, as great _Cassilane_: