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Scene 4.

Voracho, Spuratro.
Encounter.
Spu.
Voracho!

Vo.
Spuratro!

Spu.
What booties are abroad?

Vo.
I rounded have the Forest; but can finde
Naught worth the undertaking.

Spu.
Hast thou seen any? I am honest grown
For want of practice; Thieves, like misers, should
Seek for great gains, but not neglect the small.

Vo.
Two Forresters I oft accosted have,
Who by their course seem but to lodge some Dear.

Spu.
No matter what: Are their cloths good they wear:

Vo.
Give ear a while; I hear some one draw nigh.

Spu.
A certain prize, close to our Ambush ply.

They hide themselves.
Eumena ent.
Eu.
I have outstript the accents of her voice,
And should by her expressions have escap'd
The hazard of encounter or pursuit.
But whether my Intention should direct,
If my sense could distinguish where I am,
Is not yet form'd in Resolution:
Fear hath till now usurpt that faculty,
And happily conducted nature so,
As the next means to preservation.
Difficulty is sooner overcome,
Than treachery: Thus this evasion past,
I should proceed to free me from the next:
But in this obscure Labyrinth I finde
The more to disingage me I insist,
The more in errour I my self involve.
These unfrequented shades, approaching night,
My senses seise with horrour, captivate
My fight: benum'd with lassitude my limbs
Forget their use: yet when to me the cause
Presents it self, Love sweetens ev'ry clause.
Oh! cruell Villain!

shout, Eu. falls.
Spu.
Twas well directed, sirrah! he is fall'n.

Uo.
Quickly advance, and finish him, Ile wait
The Coast.

Eu.
What seek you of me? if my life,
It is already to your hand betray'd;
A thing so vain, they would not it defend,
Had tryed the evils hath attended mine.

Spu.
So willing to depart? had we but known
Your minde, you longer might have liv'd, we seek
Anothers life, but to secure our own.
Spu. goes about to rifle him: whistles.
Tis money is our End.

Gratianus Ent.
Spu. withdraws.
Gra.
The cry I heard upon the shot, was here,
If my sense err not: hah! a handsome youth
Lyes weltring in his blood: what art thou? speak.

Eu.
I shall not be, while I can let you know,
Without the help of charitable hands.

Gra. raises Eu.
Gra.
To your first succour, Sir, accept of mine.
So, so, gently rest hardly on me.
Why gaze you still with terrour round about?

Eu.
Least my unhappy suffrings should betray
Your charity to the hands, by which I fell.

Gra.
What were the Villains?

Eu.
By their intension, I should judg them thieves

Gra.
Take courage sir, I have at hand more ayd,
If need require, which wait but on my Call.
Your wound, I do perceive, not mortall is,
Yet least your travell, and th'ensuing cold
Of Night should farther hazard it, I will
Conduct you to a holy man, resides
Not far from hence, whose Piety and skill
Shall to your succour certain safety bring.

Eu.
Your goodness sir, hath taught me to believe
The gods, as yet, have not abandon'd me.
Nor shall my gratitude be wanting to
Their Providence, or your humanity.

Gra.
Mine, if successfull, hath his recompence.
Strain not your self, but rest upon my arm.

Eu.
Heav'n many times to good doth turn our Harm.

Ex.