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despise thine own dear hony Viscount to be a _Sultana_.
_Isa_. A _Sultana_, what's that?
_Guil_. Why, 'tis the great _Turk_, a Queen of _Turkey_.
_Isa_. These dear expressions go to my Heart. [_Weeps_.
And yet a _Sultana_ is a tempting thing-- [_Aside smiling_.
--And you shall find your Isabella true,--though the _Grand Seignior_
wou'd lay his Crown at my feet,--wou'd he wou'd try me though--Heavens!
to be Queen of _Turkey_. [_Aside_.
_Guil_. May I believe thee,--but when thou seest the difference, alas, I
am but a Chimney--hum, nothing to a great _Turk_.
_Isa_. Is he so rare a thing?--Oh, that I were a she great _Turk_.
[_Aside_.
_Guz_. Come, come, we can't attend your amorous Parleys.
[_Parts 'em_.
_Jul_. Alas, what shall we poor Women do?
[_Ex. Men_.
_Isa_. We must e'en have patience, Madam, and be ravisht.
_Cla_. Ravisht! Heavens forbid.
_Jac_. An please the Lord, I'll let my nails grow against that direful
day.
_Isa_. And so will I, for I'm resolv'd none should ravish me but the
great _Turk_.
_Guz_. Come, Ladies, you are Dishes to be serv'd up to the board of the
_Grand Seignior_.
_Isa_. Why, will he eat us all?
_Guz_. A slice of each, perhaps, as he finds his Appetite inclin'd.
_Isa_. A slice, uncivil Fellow,--as if this Beauty were for a bit and
away;--Sir, a word,--if you will do me the favour, to recommend me to be
first served up to the _Grand Seignior_, I shall remember the Civility
when I am great.
_Guz_. Lady, he is his own Carver, a good word by the bye, or so, will
do well, and I am--a Favorite--
_Isa_. Are you so? here, take this Jewel,--in earnest of greater
Favours--
[_Gives him a Jewel_.
[Exeunt all.
SCENE II. _A Garden_.
_Enter Don Carlos and_ Lopez.
_Car_. But, why so near the Land? by Heaven, I saw each action of the
Fight, from yonder grove of Jessamine; and doubtless all beheld it
from the Town.
_Lop_. The Captain, Sir, design'd it so, and at the Harbour gave it out
those two Galleys were purposely prepared to entertain the Count and the
Ladies with the representation of a Sea-fight; lest the noise of the
Guns should alarm the Town, and, taking it for a real fight, shou'd have
sent out Supplies, and so have ruin'd our Designs.
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