SCENE III.[3632

_Enter_ LUGIER, DE GARD, ROSALURA, _and_ LILLIA BIANCA.

_Lug._ This is the last adventure.

_De Gard._ And the happiest, As we hope, too.

_Ros._ We should be glad to find it.

_Lil._ Who shall conduct us thither?

_Lug._ Your man is ready. For I must not be seen; no, nor this gentleman; That may beget suspicion; all the rest 5 Are people of no doubt. I would have ye, ladies, Keep your old liberties, and as we instruct ye. Come, look not pale; you shall not lose your wishes, Nor beg ’em neither; but be yourselves and happy.

_Ros._ I tell you true, I cannot hold off longer, Nor give no more hard language.

_De Gard._ You shall not need. 11

_Ros._ I love the gentleman, and must now show it: Shall I beat a proper man out of heart?

_Lug._ There ’s none advises ye.

_Lil._ Faith, I repent me too.

_Lug._ Repent and spoil all; Tell what ye know, ye had best!

_Lil._ I ’ll tell what I think; 15 For, if he ask me now if I can love him, I ’ll tell him, yes, I can. The man’s a kind man, And out of his true honesty affects me. Although he play’d the fool, which I requited, Must I still hold him at the staff’s end?

_Lug._ You are two strange women. 20

_Ros._ We may be, if we fool still.

_Lug._ Dare ye believe me? Follow but this advice I have set you in now, And if ye lose—Would ye yield now so basely? Give up without your honours sav’d?

_De Gard._ Fie, ladies! Preserve your freedom still.

_Lil._ Well, well, for this time. 25

_Lug._ And carry that full state—

_Ros._ That ’s as the wind stands; If it begin to chop about, and scant us, Hang me, but I know what I ’ll do! Come, direct us; I make no doubt we shall do handsomely.

_De Gard._ Some part o’ th’ way we ’ll wait upon ye, ladies; 30 The rest your man supplies.

_Lug._ Do well, I ’ll honour ye. _Exeunt._