SCENE III.[1969

[_Enter_] FACE.

_Face._ Where are you, doctor?

_Sub._ [_within._] I ’ll come to you presently.

_Face._ I will ha’ this same widow, now I ha’ seen her, On any composition.

[_Enter_ SUBTLE]

_Sub._ What do you say?

_Face._ Ha’ you dispos’d of them?

_Sub._ I ha’ sent ’em up.

_Face._ Subtle, in troth, I needs must have this widow. 5

_Sub._ Is that the matter?

_Face._ Nay, but hear me.

_Sub._ Go to. If you rebel once, Dol shall know it all: Therefore be quiet, and obey your chance.

_Face._ Nay, thou art so violent now. Do but conceive, Thou art old, and canst not serve——

_Sub._ Who cannot? I? 10 ’Slight, I will serve her with thee, for a——

_Face._ Nay, But understand: I’ll gi’ you composition.[1970]

_Sub._ I will not treat with thee. What! sell my fortune? ’T is better than my birthright. Do not murmur: Win her, and carry her. If you grumble, Dol 15 Knows it directly.

_Face._ Well, sir, I am silent. Will you go help to fetch in Don in state? [_Exit._]

_Sub._ I follow you, sir. We must keep Face in awe, Or he will overlook us like a tyrant. [_Re-enter_ FACE, _introducing_] SURLY _like a Spaniard._ Brain of a tailor! who comes here? Don John!

_Sur. Senores, beso las manos a vuestras mercedes_.[1971] 21

_Sub._ Would you had stoop’d a little, and kist our _anos_.

_Face._ Peace, Subtle!

_Sub._ Stab me; I shall never hold, man. He looks in that deep ruff like a head in a platter, Serv’d in by a short cloak upon two trestles. 25

_Face._ Or what do you say to a collar of brawn,[1972] cut down Beneath the souse,[1973] and wriggled with a knife?

_Sub._ ’Slud, he does look too fat to be a Spaniard.

_Face._ Perhaps some Fleming or some Hollander got him In d’Alva’s time; Count Egmont’s bastard.

_Sub._ Don, 30 Your scurvy, yellow, Madrid face is welcome.

_Sur. Gratia._

_Sub._ He speaks out of a fortification. Pray God he ha’ no squibs in those deep sets.[1974]

_Sur. Por dios, senores,[1975] muy linda casa!_

_Sub._ What says he?

_Face._ Praises the house, I think; 35 I know no more but ’s action.

_Sub._ Yes, the _casa_, My precious Diego, will prove fair enough To cozen you in. Do you mark? You shall Be cozened, Diego.[1976]

_Face._ Cozened, do you see, My worthy Donzel,[1977] cozened.

_Sur._ _Entiendo._[1978] 40

_Sub._ Do you intend it? So do we, dear Don. Have you brought pistolets[1979] or portagues, My solemn Don? [_To_ FACE.] Dost thou feel any?

_Face._ (_Feels his pockets._) Full.

_Sub._ You shall be emptied, Don, pumped and drawn Dry, as they say.

_Face._ Milked, in troth, sweet Don. 45

_Sub._ See all the monsters; the great lion of all, Don.

_Sur. Con licencia, se puede ver a esta senora?_[1980]

_Sub._ What talks he now?

_Face._ Of the senora.

_Sub._ O, Don, This is the lioness, which you shall see Also, my _Don_.

_Face._ ’Slid, Subtle, how shall we do? 50

_Sub._ For what?

_Face._ Why, Dol’s employ’d, you know.

_Sub._ That ’s true. ’Fore heav’n I know not: he must stay, that ’s all.

_Face._ Stay! that he must not by no means.

_Sub._ No! why?

_Face._ Unless you ’ll mar all. ’Slight, he ’ll suspect it; And then he will not pay, not half so well. 55 This is a travell’d punk-master, and does know All the delays; a notable hot rascal, And looks already rampant.

_Sub._ ’Sdeath, and Mammon Must not be troubled.

_Face._ Mammon! in no case.

_Sub._ What shall we do then?

_Face._ Think: you must be sudden.[1981] 60

_Sur. Entiendo que la senora es tan hermosa, que codicio tan a verla como la bien aventuranza de mi vida._[1982]

_Face. Mi vida!_ ’Slid, Subtle, he puts me in mind o’ the widow. What dost thou say to draw her to ’t, ha! 65 And tell her ’t is her fortune? All our venture Now lies upon ’t. It is but one man more, Which on’s chance to have her: and beside, There is no maidenhead to be fear’d or lost. What dost thou think on ’t, Subtle?

_Sub._ Who, I? why—— 70

_Face._ The credit of our house too is engag’d.[1983]

_Sub._ You made me an offer for my share ere-while. What wilt thou gi’ me, i’ faith?

_Face._ O, by that light I’ll not buy now. You know your doom[1984] to me. E’en take your lot, obey your chance, sir; win her, 75 And wear her—out for me.

_Sub._ ’Slight, I’ll not work her then.

_Face._ It is the common cause; therefore bethink you. Dol else must know it, as you said.

_Sub._ I care not.

_Sur. Senores, porque se tarda tanto?_[1985]

_Sub._ Faith, I am not fit. I am old.

_Face._ That’s now no reason, sir.

_Sur. Puede ser de hazer burla de mi amor?_“[1986] 81

_Face._ You hear the Don too? By this air I call, And loose the hinges. Dol!

_Sub._ A plague of hell——

_Face._ Will you then do?

_Sub._ You ’re a terrible rogue! I’ll think of this. Will you, sir, call the widow?

_Face._ Yes, and I’ll take her too with all her faults, 86 Now I do think on ’t better.

_Sub._ With all my heart, sir; Am I discharg’d o’ the lot?

_Face._ As you please.

_Sub._ Hands. [_They shake hands._]

_Face._ Remember now, that upon any change You never claim her.

_Sub._ Much good joy and health to you, sir, 90 Marry a whore! Fate, let me wed a witch first.

_Sur. Por estas honradas barbas_[1987]——

_Sub._ He swears by his beard. Dispatch, and call the brother too. [_Exit_ FACE.]

_Sur. Tengo duda, senores, que no me hagan alguna traycion._[1988] 95

_Sub._ How, issue on? Yes, _praesto, senor_. Please you _Enthratha_ the _chambratha_, worthy don: Where if you please the fates, in your _bathada_, You shall be soak’d, and strok’d, and tubb’d, and rubb’d, And scrubb’d, and fubb’d,[1989] dear don, before you go. 100 You shall in faith, my scurvy baboon don, Be curried, claw’d, and flaw’d,[1990] and taw’d,[1991] indeed. I will the heartlier go about it now, And make the widow a punk so much the sooner, To be reveng’d on this impetuous Face: 105 The quickly doing of it is the grace. [_Exeunt_ SUB. _and_ SURLY.]