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SCENE III.

PYRGOPOLINICES and PALÆSTRIO.
PYRGOPOLINICES.
Palæstria, what would'st thou advise me now
To do about my mistress? for by no means
Can I receive this here into my house,
Till I've dismiss'd the other.

Pal.
Why consult
Me what you ought to do? I've told you, how
It may be carried with all gentleness.
Her trinkets, baubles, all her women's geer,
With which you furnish'd her, e'en let her have,
Take, carry off: and tell her, 'tis high time
She should go home again; tell her, her mother
And her twin-sister are arriv'd, with whom
She may depart.

Pyrg.
How know'st thou, they are come?

Pal.
I saw her sister here with my own eyes.

Pyrg.
What, have they met?

Pal.
They have.

Pyrg.
How does she look?
Is she a brave piece?

Pal.
You would have them all.

Pyrg.
Where was her mother, did the sister say?

Pal.
The master of the ship, that brought them, told me,
She had an inflammation in her eyes,
And was on board: He's lodg'd too at next door.

Pyrg.
But to the point.

Pal.
Well.

Pyrg.
What would'st thou advise?
I'd have thee talk to her upon the subject:
'Twill come better from thee.

Pal.
Nay, rather go
Yourself; yourself transact your own concerns.
Tell her, you needs must marry,—you're persuaded
By your relations, urg'd to't by your friends.

Pyrg.
And dost thou think so?

Pal.
How can I think other?

Pyrg.
I'll in then, and do thou mean time keep watch
Before the house, that thou mayst call me out,
When th'other comes.

Pal.
Mind what you do.

Pyrg.
I shall.
For, if she go not of her own accord,
I'll turn her out by force.

Pal.
No, do not so,
But rather let her go with a good grace:
Give her the things I mention'd; let her take
Her trinkets, and her geer.

Pyrg.
With all my heart.

Pal.
You'll easily, I think, prevail with her.—
But get you in, don't loiter.—

Pyrg.
I obey you.

[Pyrgopolinices goes in.
Pal.
(To the spectators.)
Doth he appear ought chang'd from what I told you
A while ago he was, this wenching captain?—
Now do I want Acroteleutium
To come here, and her maid, and Pleusides.—
O Jupiter! how much Commodity
Befriends me on all sides!—for those I wish'd
To see, are coming hither from our neighbour's.