SCENE II.[2739

_Enter_ MENDOZA _supporting the_ Duchess _and_ GUERRINO: _the ladies that are on the stage rise_: FERRARDO _ushers in the_ Duchess, _and then takes a lady to tread a measure_.[2740]

_Aur._ We will dance: music!—we will dance.

_Guer. Les quanto_,[2741] lady, _Pensez bien_, _Passa regis_, or _Bianca’s brawl_?

_Aur._ We have forgot the brawl.

_Fer._ So soon? ’T is wonder. 5

_Guer._ Why, ’t is but two singles on the left, two on the right, three doubles forward, a traverse of six round: do this twice, three singles side, galliard trick-of-twenty, coranto-pace; a figure of eight, three singles broken down, (10) come up, meet, two doubles, fall back, and then honour.

_Aur._ O Daedalus, thy maze! I have quite forgot it.

_Maq._ Trust me, so have I, saving the falling-back, and then honour. 16

_Enter_ PREPASSO.

_Aur._ Music, music!

_Prep._ Who saw the duke? the duke?

_Enter_ EQUATO.

_Aur._ Music!

_Equato._ The duke? is the duke returned? 20

_Aur._ Music!

_Enter_ CELSO.

_Celso._ The duke is either quite invisible, or else is not.

_Aur._ We are not pleased with your intrusion upon our private retirement; we are not (25) pleased: you have forgot yourselves.

_Enter a_ Page.

_Celso._ Boy, thy master? Where’s the duke?

_Page._ Alas, I left him burying the earth with his spread joyless limbs: he told me he was heavy, would sleep; bade me walk off, 30 for that the strength of fantasy oft made him talk in his dreams. I straight obeyed, nor ever saw him since: but whereso’er he is, he ’s sad.

_Aur._ Music, sound high, as is our heart! Sound high! 35