[ Scene I. A Garden.]

Enter Cleonte, Clarinda weeping, and Dormida and Francisca.

Cleo. Fear not, I’ll use my Interest both with your

Mother and my Father, to set your Heart at rest,

Whose Pain I feel by something in my own.

Clar. The Gods reward your Bounty, fair Cleonte.

Dor. I, I, Madam, I beseech you make our Peace with my good Lady her Mother, whatsoever becomes of the rest, for she’ll e’en die with Grief— [Weeps.

She had but two fair Pledges of her Nuptial Bed.

And both by cruel Fate are ravisht from her.

Manuel a Child was lost,