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SCENA TERTIA.

Fabritio, Alphonso, Climene, Carlos, Isabella.
Fabritio.
We are free at last
From the Dukes hands.

Alphonso.
O Heaven! ist possible?
Fabritio yet present him to mine eyes?
I gave, Sir, too much credit to your words.

—to Carlos.
Carlos.
He was not here, Sir, when I said them to you,

Alphonso.
Thou blinded Sonne, through what ingratitude
Build'st thou thy pleasures upon my disquiet?
VVhat hath made thee despise a Fathers Will,
whom thou know'st cherisheth thy life so much
And why inviolating all the rights
Of nature, dost thou make so small accompt
Of the light which thou owest me? Ingratefull!

Fabritio.
The care, Sir, of my safetie troubleeh you
Too much, I doe not hate the light, but love is
Lesse then Climene.

Alphonso.
I commanded thee
To quit this residence.

Fabritio.
But I receiv'd
Another order.

Alphouso.
How! from whom?

Fabritio.
From Love.

Alphonso.
Love makes no lawes but for those that will take 'em;
And reason now forbiddeth thee to embrace it

Fabritio.
Oh reason, Sir, had left me, and I was
Too much enchained, to depart.

Alphonso.
Canst thou
Stay without shame, after an infidelitie?

Fabritio.
Climene is as constant as she's faire:
My spirit was struck with an injust suspition,
I'm disabused, and she's readie heere
To follow me.

Alphonso.
To follow thee?

Climene.
Yes Sir,
To follow him, I have engag'd my selfe;
Though his condition be chang'd, I am not.

Alphonso.
I alwaies doubted till this very moment.
Whether a woman could love constantly;
But if your love hath any reason with it,
Haste you to goe out of his fatall cuntry.

Fabritio.
There's nothing that shall stop my stepps to morrow
Sir, I sweare to you.—

Carlos.
Friend, thou shalt not sweare.

Fabritio.
If you believe it not, I doe assure you,
You are in an extreme errour; who can stay us?

Carlos.
Pehaps, It may be I.

Fabritio.
You?

Carlos.
Yes, I will
Tell you a sad adventure, which should be
Equallie grievous ro us both; Ciimene
Is by a fatall chaunce committed to
My guard, and I'm responsible for her.
I've the Dukes ordsr for it, and to add
To the misfortune, I thought to have taken
Climene, and I took your sister for her.

Isabella.
What! this was then the cause which troubled you
So much but now?

Carlos.
You have but little reason
To doubt of it; but understand my trouble
In this extremitie, if Climene flyes,
I shall be forc'd to expose Isabella
Instead of her to the Dukes passions:
I love her, and tis now no longer time
To disguise my thoughts to you, Iudge, I pray you,
If in this daunger I ought to expose her.

Fabritio.
How great is our misfortune?

Alphonso.
Not so great
As it appeares unto you; to be free
Of all feare, get ye gone all foure togeither.
The Duke will be reduced afterward
To be appeas'd.

Carlos.
This is a most sure way;
But whence proceeds this noise?