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Scena Quinta.

Enter Captain Dacus, Cacala, Cypassis, Floretta, and Spinella.
Cypas.
It was a Lamentable Spectacle
We met withall as we came hither.

Dacus.
An usuall one; a dead man:
We Souldiers smile upon a thousand such.

Cypas.
Bassanes was an extraordinary Person.

Dacus.
Cæsars, and Lords, must dy.

Caca.
You talk of Trifles. The story I related you,
Of my Master Captain Hanniballs being took away with Devils,
Deserves to be call'd terrible indeed.
Hell broke loose on him, Divels, and Divels-Dam's
Ceaz'd both upon him. He would faine have hung
An Arse, but no Resistance could prevail:
Away they hurried him, and left me in
So great a fear, I know not how I came home.

Flor.
Thou hast told us too much of this already,
And too often.

Caca.
T'will never out of my Memory.

Flor.
Nor from thy tongue I fear.

Caca.
Oh fear the gods, Mistriss Floretta, fear them
Take heed, the Divels show you not such a Trick:
Turn virtuous pritty One, and marry me.
For I do love thee above woman kind,
Show thy self therefore to me a kind woman.

Flor.
Though I am sorry my Hannibal is perish'd so:
I cannot call him back; And must some care
Take of my self. And therefore Cacala
I'le be thy wife. All his remaining Goods
Are ours.

Caca.
And I have something too to trust to
In my own Country.

Cypas.
Here's a Match soon made up.

Flor.
We will return to Rome.

Caca.
With all my heart.

Dacus.
And will my fair Spinella prove as kind?

Spinel.
Now Lord Bassanes is dead, I am content
To receive Captain Dacus for my Husband:
Mother! I hope of your allowance to it.

Cypas.
And you shall have it. The gods grant you joy.

Dacus.
My Mother Cypassis now indeed!

Cypas.
You knew her Father. He was your Countriman
And a fine Gentleman, when he in Rome
Did marry me; I else should never have been
Content t'have liv'd in so remote a Province.
Though his good nature, and many Losses at Sea,
Melted away most of his Land, we have
Silver and Gold enough to make you live
In plenty.

Dacus.
Mother, I kiss your reverent hand
In Gratitude. What my own means may prove
Deficient in, my valour shall supply.

Spin.
Wee'l have no fighting nor any Quarrelling:
I am for peace. Love hates the noise of War.

Dacus.
You are too timorous; Grow as affectionate:
For thus I print my Soul upon thy Lipps.

Caca.
Let us go home, send for a Priest of Hymens;
And presently each Couple on's be married.

Omnes.
Agreed, agreed.

Caca.
I dare not lye alone to night for fear
My Captain, or his Friends, should give me a visit.

Spinel.
Was Hannibal, a Gentleman by birth?

Dacus.
My pritty One—
Brave Hannibal the famous Carthaginian,
Who march'd like Mars, even to the walls of Rome,
And fought against that Senate for the worlds Empire;
In one of's winter Quarters at Salapia,
Obtain'd th'Affection of a Beautifull Lady
Call'd Issidora: And from them he was
Descended lineally; As He lately told me.

Spinel.
And is now
Descended to the Divel; we have heard, how

Exeunt Omnes.