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Scene 2.

Mundolo
Mu.
I have with pain this difficulty past,
But how I shall go thorough with the next,
Falls not as yet in my Conception.
Was ever Culli'on forced to the Arms
Of so much Beauty yet? 'Tis the last time
I'le be undertaker to Anothers
Pleasure A vestall far more easily
I might corrupted have, than him have mov'd
To the approach I was enforc'd to leave
My slights, pretending that his gold had won
Me to the Change; whilest under the colour
Of ayding his escape, I train'd him through
The thickest of the wood, where seeming to
Have lost my self, I lodg'd him here untill
To morrows light.

Orgula Enter.
Or.
Mundolo.

Mu.
Madam

Or.
How thrives our purposes?

Mu.
As you your self could wish.

Or.
Why? Hast thou won him hither?

Mu.
I have, and finde this passive coldness
Is but the bashfull softness of his youth,
Which vail'd with nights obscurity will prove
More hardy.

Or.
Where hast thou lodged him?

Mu.
Close to your withdrawing room, wherein
Are Chambers onely to my use assign'd.

Or.
Tis well, but hast thou to Sinevero's cup
Infused thy Ingredient?

Mu.
Tis done.

Or.
I fear the failing of its force.

Mu.
My life shall be the Forfeiture.

Or.
I finde in him no alteration yet.

Mu.
It must have time to operate.

Ver.
Hah! hah! hah! Vergona, Amasia.

Or.
So full of myrth, Vergona.

Ver.
Your Honours Pardon,
Who from th'expression could restrain themselves,
Must have a temper more discreete than mine.

Or.
What is the matter? speak Amasia, speak.

Am.
My Lord the Bridegroom fain would be in Bed.

Or.
With which of you? I pray ye are so pleasant grown.

Am.
The fervour of his Inclination
Affecteth no Society

Or.
No, what moves his Passion then?

Am.
Upon my life no Action, Madam.
You need not fear he should disquiet you
To night.

Or.
Thou art distracted sure.

Am.
I should be so, held I your honours place,
T'would move the suff'rance of a longing Bride,
To lose her expectation fully rais'd.

Or.
This but confirms me more in my belief.
Unvaile the mystery.

To Vergano.
Ver.
Madam, without more circumstance, my Lord
Travel'd in fancy with too high delight,
Ere he to the Fruition came, makes
His Relaxes in a pleasant slumber.

Am.
So Dull,
The image scarce can be distinguished.
From what it represents.

Ver.
No violence can move a sense of life,
More than he breaths.

Or.
Tis strange, perhaps some lassitude of spirit.
See, yee disturb him not.

Am.
A Trumpet or a Cannon will not do't.

Or.
It works, Mundolo, vanisht are my fears.

Mu.
Your honour will have firmer confidence
In my Proceedings.

To Mun. privately to whisper.
Or.
I shall, and truly value them:

The waiting women one to the other
Ver.
We shall not need, Amasia to steal
Away the Bride to Night.

Am.
Nor she, Vergona, to protract the loss
Of her Virginity with pretended Vows.

Ver.
Twill save her Artificiall modesty
From such constraint.

Am.
Fy upon flegm and age, which have not heat
Enough to reach to the Encounter.

Ver.
This interlude were rare to introduce
Another to her Bed.

Am.
When he awaking should believe he had
What he found wanting, in a pleasant dream.

Ver.
The slight would please beyond what follows it.

Or.
It shall be so; Amasia, get things
To Mu.
In readiness, I will to bed.

Am.
Your Honour will not frustrate the designe
Your Servants for your entertainment have
Already form'd, and now without attend
You with a Banquet and a Masque;

Or.
Go let them know their Lord being indispos'd,
Their sports shall till to morrow be deferr'd,
Their Banquet place in my withdrawing room.

Am.
We shall.

Ex. Am. Ver.
Or.
Mundolo, now
My joys have freedome to declare themselves,
And yeeld to thee their due acknowledgement.
A double vigour animates my sense:
The flames of Love I finde more active prove,
When they approach their sphear, onely to thee
Lays her hand on Mun.
Their union must their mediation owe.
How fortunes malice labours to suppresse
The light of Nature; her beauties casting
In obscurity: had they but agreed
In thy Production, thy wit had rais'd
A glorious title to thy memory.

Mu.
Yet to your Honours Testimony far
Inferiour.

Or.
I shall finde means to lend it Action
Worthy thy capacity: I'th' interim,
Proceed to perfect my intention,
Occasions ripe, and time doth speedy grow,
Yet in his flight, to answer Love, too slow.

Mu.
My diligence with like alacrity
Shall meet them both.
Exit Mun.

Or.
Contract thy dullest vapour gloomy night,
Thou fully may'st thy right anticipate:
Vaile every gaudy spangle of thy Robe,
Thy Beautie lies in thy obscurity.
With thy deep Lethargie charm ev'ry sense,
No Spye may intercept Loves Privacie.
Throughout thy silent Region, no breath move,
May once divert the Fancie of our Love.
And when thou must withdraw, least us thou should'st
Betray; precipitate not thy Course; but slide
By degrees away.