Was issue of my doubts, not of my knowledge. Spin. Woful satisfaction For a divorce of hearts! I shall touch nearer home: behold these hairs, Some messengers of time, I must acknowledge, Love drove the bargain, and the truth of love In that respect are as resolute as yours, Than doth charge of disloyalty objected 1 -Behold these hairs, Great masters of a spirit, &c.] Lenit albescens animos capillus, GIFFORD. Without or ground or witness: women's faults Aurel. Are you so nimble? Mal. A soul sublimed from dross by competition, Such as is mighty Auria's famed, descends From its own sphere, when injuries, profound ones, Withhold dispute; but execute your vengeance I challenge satisfaction. Over an humble and obedient sweetness, Enter ADURNI. Adur. That I make good, And must without exception find admittance, Put case I was in fault, that fault stretch'd merely Aur. Baited by confederacy! I must have right. Spin. And I, my lord, my lord What stir and coil is here! you can suspect? Conclude the difference by revenge, or part, Lend me thine arm; I have assumed a courage Aur. Spinella! Regent of my affections, thou hast conquer'd: Cast. Mine? Aur. Yours, to whose faith I am a guardian, not by imposition, But by you chosen. A husband for you, noble and deserving; No shrinking back. A wife of worth. Mal. How's that? Look you, I have fitted Adurni, I present her, Adur. So great a blessing Crowns all desires of life.-The motion, lady, But welcomed and forethought; would you could please To say the like! Aur. Castanna, do.-Speak, dearest, It rectifies all crooked, vain surmises; I prithee speak. Spin. The courtship's somewhat quick, The match, it seems, agreed on; do not, sister, Cast. I dare not question The will of heaven. Mal. Unthought of and unlook'd for! Spin. My ever-honourd lord. Aurel. This marriage frees Each circumstance of jealousy. Aur. Make no scruple, Castanna, of the choice; 't is firm and real: Why else have I so long with tameness nourish'd Report of wrongs, but that I fixed on issue Of my desires? Italians use not dalliance, From custom of our nation; * [turns to Spinella.]-Yet in sooth, My dearest, I might blame your causeless absence, To whom my love and nature were no strangers: But being in your kinsman's house, I honour His hospitable friendship, and must thank it. Now lasting truce on all hands. Aurel. You will pardon A rash and over-busy curiosity? Spin. It was to blame; but the success remits it. Adur. Sir, what presumptions formerly have grounded Opinion of unfitting carriage to you, On my part I shall faithfully acquit Mal. You prevent the nicety; Use your own pleasure. BENATZI rushes in with his sword drawn, followed by LEVIDOLCHE and MARTINO. Aurle. What's the matter? Aur. Matter? Ben. Adurni and Malfato found together! Now for a glorious vengeance. Lev. Hold, oh, hold him! Aurel. This is no place for murder; yield thy sword. Aur. Yield it, or force it ;-[BEN. is disarmed.set you up your shambles Of slaughter in my presence? Adur. Let him come. Mal. What can the ruffian mean? Ben. I am prevented; The temple or the chamber of the duke Adur. Thy wife! I know not her, nor thee. Lev. Yes, me you know. Heaven has a gentle mercy For penitent offenders: blessed ladies, Repute me not a castaway, though once I fell into some lapses, which our sex Are oft entangled by; yet what I have been Concerns me now no more, who am resolv'd On a new life. This gentleman, Benatzi, Disguised as you see, I have remarried.I knew you at first sight, and tender constantly Submission for all errors. Mart. Nay, 't is true, sir. Ben. I joy in the discovery, am thankful' Aur. Let wonder henceforth cease, Of good or bad, would straiten time presented Mart. Welcome, and welcome ever. Lev. Mine eyes, sir, never shall without a blush Receive a look from yours: please to forget All passages of rashness; such attempt Was mine, and only mine. Mal. You have found a way To happiness; I honour the conversion. 1 I joy in the discovery, am thankful sure. Unto the change.] Benatzi takes the matter with all due compoThat his precious moiety should recognise him through his rags, his formidable mustachios, and his Pistol-like demeanour, is natural enough; the wonder is that Benatzi should not recollect her. She wore no disguise, she retains the name by which he married her, she still lived, as before, with her foolish uncle, and she confides to him a part of her history, in which he was a sharer. The author seems to have discovered all this when it was too late; and has just allowed us to surmise, from Auria's next speech, that the "remarried gentleman" might not be so complete a dupe as he appears.-GIFFORD VOL. II.-8 |