Rom. He loves you?

Flav. As worthily as dearly.

Rom. And 't is believ'd how practice quickly fashion'd

A port of humorous anticness in carriage,
Discourse, demeanour, gestures.

Cam. Put home roundly.

Ves. A ward for that blow?

Flav. Safety of mine honour
Instructed such deceit.

Rom. Your honour?
Flav. Witness

This brace of sprightly gallants, whose confederacy Presumed to plot a siege.

Cam. Ves. We, madam!

Rom. On, on;

Some leisure serves us now.
Flav. Still as lord Julio

Pursued his contract with the man,-oh, pardon,
If I forget to name him!-by whose poverty
Of honest truth I was renounced in marriage;
These two, intrusted for a secret courtship,
By tokens, letters, message, in their turns,
Proffer'd their own devotions, as they term'd them,
Almost unto an impudence; regardless

Of him, on whose supportance they relied.

Rom. Dare not for both your lives to interrupt her.

Flav. Baited thus to vexation, I assumed A dulness of simplicity; till afterward Lost to my city-freedom, and now enter'd Into this present state of my condition (Concluding henceforth absolute security From their lascivious villanies), I continued My former custom of ridiculous lightness, As they did their pursuit; t' acquaint my lord

were

To have ruin'd their best certainty of living:
But that might yield suspicion in my nature;

And women may be virtuous, without mischief
To such as tempt them.

Rom. You are much to blame, sirs,
Should all be truth is utter'd.

Flav. For that justice

I did command them hither; for a privacy
In conference 'twixt Flavia and her brother,
Needed no secretaries such as these are.
Now, Romanello, thou art every refuge
I fly for right to; if I be thy sister,

And not a bastard, answer their confession,
Or threaten vengeance with perpetual silence.

Cam. My follies are acknowledged; you 're a lady
Who have outdone example: when I trespass
In aught but duty and respects of service,
May hopes of joys forsake me.

Ves. To like penance

I join a constant votary.
Rom. Peace, then,

Is ratified. My sister, thou hast waken'd
Entranc'd affection from its sleep to knowledge
Of once more who thou art; no jealous phrensy
Shall hazard a distrust: reign in thy sweetness,
Thou only worthy woman; these two converts
Record our hearty union.
[Exeunt

ACT V. SCENE I.

JULIO, FLAVIA, ROMANELLO, and VESPUCCI.
Ves. Lord Julio, madam, Romanello, read
A novelty; 't is written from Bononia.
Fabricio, once a merchant in this city,
Is enter'd into orders, and received
Among the capuchins a fellow; news
Which ought not any ways to be unpleasant:
Certain, I can assure it.

Jul. He at last has

Bestow'd himself upon a glorious service.

Rom. Most happy man!—I now forgive the injuries

Thy former life exposed thee to.

Sister, you cannot taste this course but bravely,
But thankfully.

Flav. He's now dead to the world,

And lives to heaven; a saint's reward reward him!

THE END.

L