SCENE III.[1698

[_To them enter_] MOSCA.

_Mos._ What is the matter, madam?

_Lady P._ If the senate Right not my quest in this, I will protest ’em To all the world no aristocracy.

_Mos._ What is the injury, lady?

_Lady P._ Why, the callet[1695] You told me of, here I have ta’en disguis’d. 5

_Mos._ Who? this! what means your ladyship? The creature I mention’d to you is apprehended now, Before the senate; you shall see her——

_Lady P._ Where?

_Mos._ I ’ll bring you to her. This young gentleman, I saw him land this morning at the port. 10

_Lady P._ Is ’t possible! how has my judgment wander’d? Sir, I must, blushing, say to you, I have err’d; And plead your pardon.

_Per._ What, more changes yet!

_Lady P._ I hope you ha’ not the malice to remember A gentlewoman’s passion. If you stay 15 In Venice here, please you to use me, sir——

_Mos._ Will you go, madam?

_Lady P._ Pray you, sir, use me; in faith. The more you see me the more I shall conceive You have forgot our quarrel. [_Exeunt_ LADY WOULD-BE, MOSCA, NANO, _and_ Waiting-women.]

_Per._ This is rare! Sir Politic Would-be? No, Sir Politic Bawd, 20 To bring me thus acquainted with his wife! Well, wise Sir Pol, since you have practis’d thus Upon my freshman-ship, I ’ll try your salt-head, What proof it is against a counter-plot. [_Exit._]