Yes then and now,
and ever, and excellent honest,
And exercise this
pastime but to shew ye,
Great men are
fools sometimes as well as wretches.
Would you were
well hurt, with any hope of life,
Cut to the brains,
or run clean through the body,
To get out quietly
as you got in Sir,
I wish it like
a friend that loves ye dearly,
For if my Husband
take ye, and take ye thus a counterfeit,
One that would
clip his credit out of his honour,
He must kill ye
presently,
There is no mercy
nor an hour of pity,
And for me to
intreat in such an agony,
Would shew me
little better than one guilty,
Have you any mind
to a Lady now?
Duke of Medina:
Would I were off
fair,
If ever Lady caught
me in a trap more.
Margarita:
If you be well
and lusty, fy fy shake not,
You say you love
me, come, come bravely now,
231] Despise all danger, I am ready for ye.
Duke of Medina:
She mocks my misery, thou cruel Lady.
Margarita:
Thou cruel Lord,
wouldst thou betray my honesty,
Betray it in mine
own house, wrong my Husband,
Like a night thief,
thou darst not name by day-light?
Duke of Medina:
I am most miserable.
Margarita:
You are indeed,
And like a foolish
thing you have made your self so,
Could not your
own discretion tell ye Sir,
When I was married
I was none of yours?
Your eyes were
then commanded to look off me,
And I now stand
in a circle and secure,
Your spells nor
power can never reach my body,
Mark me but this,
and then Sir be most miserable,
’Tis sacriledge
to violate a wedlock,
You rob two Temples,
make your self twice guilty,
You ruine hers,
and spot her noble Husbands.
Duke of Medina:
Let me be gone, I’le never more attempt ye.
Margarita:
You cannot goe,
’tis not in me to save ye,
Dare ye do ill,
and poorly then shrink under it?
Were I the Duke
Medina, I would fight now,
For you must fight
and bravely, it concerns you,
You do me double
wrong if you sneak off Sir,
And all the world
would say I lov’d a coward,
And you must dye
too, for you will be kill’d,
And leave your
youth, your honour and your state,
And all those
dear delights you worship’t here.
[Noise below.
Duke of Medina:
The noise again!
Cacafogo below:
Some small beer if you love me.
Margarita:
The Devil haunts
you sure, your sins are mighty.
A drunken Devil
too, to plague your villany.


