University of Virginia Library

SCENE VIII.

ADIBAR FATIMA
FATIMA.
How! quit so soon the object of your heart?

Adibar.
I studied more her rest then my content.

Fatima.
You appear seised with an extream sadnes.

Adibar.
I cannot see that suffer which I love.
Without grief:

Fatima.
Zaida sure, repulsed you.

ADIBAR.
My respect only put me of, and not
Her cruelty,

Fatima.
If she were just, or generous
She would despise a lover that's unfaithfull.

ADIBAR.
I were to blame, if I should complain of her.

Fatima.
Almansers fortune is more sweet with me.

Adibar.
I'm to well satisfied, to be jealous of it.

Fatima.
You do but flatter you with a vain hope,
Zaida hath but disdain, and hate for you.

Adibar.
Her hate and her disdain are ended now;
And our hearts speedily shall be united
By mariage.

Fatima.
But Sir, you may be mistaken
In your accompt, and hope; do you not know
That Zaida's promis'd?

Adibar.
Rather you may be
Deceived in this point: perhaps you know not
That he who was to marry her, is dead.

Fatima.
How is he dead?

Adibar.
Yes Madam, and fair Zaida
Propitious at last, will render justice
To my devout affection, and did
Assure me when I took my leave of her
That she would marry me, if I could get
Her brother to consent unto't; adiew;
To obtain this so dear and pretious Beauty,
I must addresse me to her brother, and
Solicit my best friends.—
Exit Adibar.