Margarita:
Is he a Gentleman?
Altea:
Yes and a souldier,
as gentle as you would wish him,
A good fellow,
wears good cloaths.
Margarita:
Those I’le
allow him,
They are for my
credit, does he understand
But little?
Altea:
Very little.
183]
Margarita:
’Tis the
better,
Have not the wars
bred him up to anger?
Alonzo:
No, he will not
quarrel with a dog that bites hi[m],
Let him be drunk
or sober, is one silence.
Margarita:
H’as no
capacity what honor is?
For that’s
the Souldiers god.
Altea:
Honour’s
a thing too subtil for his wisdom,
If honour lye
in eating, he is right honourable.
Margarita:
Is he so goodly a man do you say?
Altea:
As you shall see
Lady,
But to all this
is but a trunk.
Margarita:
I would have him
so,
I shall adde branches
to him to adorn him,
Goe, find me out
this man, and let me see him,
If he be that
motion that you tell me of,
And make no more
noise, I shall entertain him,
Let him be here.
Altea:
He shall attend
your Ladiship.
[Exeunt.
[Enter Juan, Alonzo, and Perez.]
Juan de Castro:
Why thou art not married indeed?
Michael Perez:
No, no, pray think
so,
Alas I am a fellow
of no reckoning,
Not worth a Ladies
eye.
Alonzo:
Wou’dst
thou steal a fortune,
And make none
of all thy friends acquainted with it,
Nor bid us to
thy wedding?
Michael Perez:
No indeed,
There was no wisdom
in’t, to bid an Artist,
An old seducer
to a femal banquet,
I can cut up my
pye without your instructions.
Juan de Castro:
Was it the wench i’th’ veil?
Michael Perez:
Basto ’twas
she,
The prettiest
Rogue that e’re you look’d upon,
The lovingst thief.
Juan de Castro:
And is she rich withal too?
Michael Perez:
A mine, a mine,
there is no end of wealth Coronel,
I am an asse,
a bashfull fool, prethee Coronel,
How do thy compa[ni]es
fill now?
Juan de Castro:
You are merry Sir,
184] You intend a safer war at home belike now.
Michael Perez:
I do not think
I shall fight much this year Coronel,
I find my self
given to my ease a little,
I care not if
I sell my foolish company,
They are things
of hazard.


