shalt see Beauties here, whose every glance
Kindle new Fires, and quite expel the old.
_Clo._ Oh, never, Sir.
_Fred._ When I was first in love, I thought so too,
But now with equal ardour
I doat upon each new and beauteous Object.
_Clo._ And quite forget the old?
_Fred._ Not so; but when I see them o'er again,
I find I love them as I did before.
_Clo._ Oh God forbid, I should be so inconstant!
No, Sir, though she be false, she has my Heart,
And I can die, but not redeem the Victim.
_Fred._ Away, you little Fool, you make me sad
By this resolve: but I'll instruct you better.
_Clo._ I would not make you sad for all the World.
Sir, I will sing, or dance, do any thing
That may divert you.
_Fred._ I thank thee, _Philibert_, and will accept
Thy Bounty; perhaps it may allay thy Griefs awhile too.
_Clo._ I'll call the Musick, Sir. [She goes out.
_Fred._ This Boy has strange agreements in him.
Enter _Cloris_ with Musick.
_She bids them play, and dances a Jig._
This was wondrous kind, my pretty _Philibert_.
[Exeunt Musick.
Enter _Page_.
_Page_. _Lorenzo_, my Lord, begs admittance.
_Fred._ He may come in. [Exit _Page_.
Enter _Lorenzo_.
--Well, _Lorenzo_, what's the News with thee?
--How goes the price of Beauty, hah?
_Lor._ My Lord, that question is _a propos_ to
What I have to say; this Paper will answer your
Question, Sir-- [Gives him a Paper, he reads.
--Hah, I vow to gad a lovely Youth; [_Lor._ gazes on _Phil._
But what makes he here with _Frederick_?
This Stripling may chance to mar my market of Women now--
'Tis a fine Lad, how plump and white he is; [Aside.
Would I could meet him somewhere i'th' dark,
I'd have a fling at him, and try whether I
Were right _Florentine_.
_Fred._ Well, Sir, where be these Beauties?
_Lor._ I'll conduct you to them.
_Fred._ What's the Fellow that brings them?
_Lor._ A _Grecian_, I think, or something.
_Fred._ Beauties from _Greece_, Man!
_Lor._ Why, let them be from the Devil,
So they be new and fine, what need we care?
--But you must go to night.
_Fred._ I am not in a very good condition
To make Visits of that kind.
_Lor._ However, see them, and if you like them,
You may oblige the Fellow to a longer stay,
For I know they are handsome.
_Fred._ That's the only thing thou art judge of;
--Well
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