Pet. Let me alone to secure you, meet me in the Piazzo d’.ispagnia, as soon as you can get yourself in order; where the two Fools shall meet, and prevent either’s coming. [Aside.
Sir Sig. Enough,—here’s a Bill for 500 Crowns more upon my Merchant, you know him by a good token, I lost the last Sum you receiv’d for me, a pox of that Handsel; away, here’s company. [Ex. Pet. Enter Octavio and Crapine.] Now will I disguise my self, according to the mode of the Roman Inamoratos; and deliver my self upon the place appointed. [Ex. Sir Sig.
Oct. On the Corso didst thou see ‘em?
Crap. On the Corso, my Lord, in discourse with three Cavaliers, one of which has given me many a Pistole, to let him into the Garden a-nights at Viterbo, to talk with Donna Marcella from her Chamber-Window, I think I shou’d remember him.
Oct. Oh, that Thought fires me with Anger fit for my Revenge, [Aside. And they are to serenade ‘em, thou say’st?
Crap. I did, my Lord: and if you can have patience till they come, you will find your Rival in this very place, if he keep his word.
Oct. I do believe thee, and have prepared my Bravoes to attack him: if I can act but my Revenge to night, how shall I worship Fortune? Keep out of sight, and when I give the word, be ready all. I hear some coming, let’s walk off a little.—
Enter Marcella in Man’s Clothes, and Philippa as a Woman with a Lanthorn. Oct. and Crap. go off the other way.
Mar. Thou canst never convince me, but if Crapine saw us, and gaz’d so long upon us, he must know us too; and then what hinders but by a diligent watch about the House, they will surprize us, e’er we have secured our selves from ‘em?
Phil. And how will this exposing your self to danger prevent ‘em?