Margarita:
Alone to comfort you.
[Cacafogo
makes a noise below.
Duke of Medina:
What’s that you tumble?
I have heard a noise this half hour under me,
A fearfull noise.
Margarita:
The fat thing’s mad i’th’ celler,
And stumbles from one hogs-head to another,
Two cups more, and he ne’r shall find the way out.
What do you fear? come, sit down by me chearfully,
My Husband’s safe, how do your wounds?
Duke of Medina:
I have none Lady,
My wounds I counterfeited
cunningly,
[noise below.
And feign’d
the quarrel too, to injoy you sweet,
Let’s lose
no time, heark the same noise again.
Margarita:
What noise, why
look ye pale? I hear no stirring,
This goblin in
the vault will be so tipled.
You are not well
I know by your flying fancy,
Your body’s
ill at ease, your wounds.
Duke of Medina:
I have none, I
am as lusty and as full of health,
High in my blood.
Margarita:
Weak in your blood
you would say,
How wretched is
my case, willing to please ye,
And find you so
disable?
Duke of Medina:
Believe me Lady.
Margarita:
I know you will
venture all you have to satisfy me,
Your life I know,
but is it fit I spoil ye,
Is it my love
do you think?
Cacafogo below:
Here’s to the Duke.
230]
Duke of Medina:
It nam’d
me certainly,
I heard it plainly
sound.
Margarita:
You are hurt mortally,
And fitter for
your prayers Sir than pleasure,
What starts you
make? I would not kiss you wantonly,
For the world’s
wealth; have I secur’d my Husband,
And put all doubts
aside to be deluded?
Cacafogo below:
I come, I come.
Duke of Medina:
Heaven bless me.
Margarita:
And bless us both,
for sure this is the Devil,
I plainly heard
it now, he will come to fetch ye,
A very spirit,
for he spoke under ground,
And spoke to you
just as you would have snatcht me,
You are a wicked
man, and sure this haunts ye,
Would you were
out o’th’ house.
Duke of Medina:
I would I were,
O’ that
condition I had leapt a window.
Margarita:
And that’s
the least leap if you mean to scape Sir,
Why what a frantick
man were you to come here,
What a weak man
to counterfeit deep wounds,
To wound another
deeper!
Duke of Medina:
Are you honest then?
Margarita:


