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Gonzalo:
I shall adore you.
[Exeunt.
[Enter _Fernando_, a[n]d _Annophel_]
Fernando:
Madam, although I hate unn.o.ble practices, And therefore have perform'd no more than what I ought, for honours safety: yet _Annophel_, Thy love hath been the spur, to urge me forward For speedier diligence.
Annophel:
Sir your own fame And memory will best reward themselves.
Fernando:
All gain is loss (sweet beauty) if I miss My comforts here: The Brother and the Sister Have double conquer'd me, but thou maist triumph.
Annophel:
Good Sir, I have a Father.
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Fernando:
Yes, a brave one; Could'st thou obscure thy beauty, yet the happiness Of being but his Daughter, were a dower Fit for a Prince: what say ye?
Annophel:
You have deserv'd As much as I should grant.
Fernando:
By this fair hand I take possession.
Annophel:
What in words I dare not, Imagine in my silence.
Fernando:
Thou art all vertue.
[Enter _Ca.s.silanes_, and _Arcanes_]
Ca.s.silanes:
I'le tell thee how: _Baldwin_ the Emperour, Pretending t.i.tle, more through tyranny, Than right of conquest, or descent, usurp'd The stile of Lord o're all the _Grecian_ Islands, And under colour of an amity With _Creet_, prefer'd the Marquess _Mountferato_ To be our Governor; the _Cretians_ vex'd By the ambitious _Turks_, in hope of aid From the Emperour, receiv'd for General, This _Mountferato_; he (the wars appeased) Plots with the state of _Venice_ and takes money Of them for _Candy_: they paid well, he steals Away in secret; since which time, that right The state of _Venice_ claims o're _Candy_, is By purchase, not inheritance or Conquest: And hence grows all our quarrel.
Arcanes:
So an Usurer Or Lumbard-Jew, might with some bags of trash, Buy half the Western world.
Ca.s.silanes:
Mony, _Arcanes_, Is now a G.o.d on Earth: it cracks virginities, And turns a Christian, Turk; Bribes justice, cut-throats honour, does what not?
Arcanes:
Not captives _Candy_.
Ca.s.silanes:
Nor makes thee dishonest, Nor me a Coward---Now Sir, here is homely, But friendly entertainment.
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Fernando:
Sir, I find it.
Arcanes:
And like it, do ye not?
Fernando:
My repair speaks for me.
Ca.s.silanes:
_Fernando_ we are speaking off--how this?
[Enter _Gonzalo_, and _Gaspero_, with a Casket]
Gonzalo:
Your friend, and servant.
Ca.s.silanes:
Creditors, my Lord, Are Masters and no Servants: as the world goes, Debters are very slaves to those to whom They have been beholding to; in which respect, I should fear you _Gonzalo_.
Gonzalo:
Me, my Lord?
You owe me nothing.
Ca.s.silanes:
