Org. First, I’ll keep my word with thee, Receive the welcome present which I promis’d.
[Gives him Erminia, she kneels.
Er. Can you forgive the Griefs I’ve made you suffer?
Org. I can forgive, though ‘twas not kind To let me languish in a desperate Error; Why was this Blessing hid from me alone?
Er. Ah, Sir, so well I knew you lov’d Alcippus,
That had you known it e’er the Prince had own’d me,
I fear you had restor’d me back again,
A Sin too great to load your Soul withal.
Org. My King already has forgiven that Error,
And now I come to make my Peace with thee,
And that I may with greatest speed obtain it,
—To you, Sir, I resign her with as much Joy, [To the Prince.
And when they undeceiv’d me
Of my opinion of her being dead—
Phi. And I with greater Joy receive your gift. [Bows and takes her.
King. My Lord Alcippus, are you pleas’d with this?
Alcip. Sir, I am so pleas’d, so truly pleas’d with it, That Heaven, without this Blessing on my Prince, Had found but little trouble from my thanks, For all they have shower’d on me; ’.was all I wisht, next my Pretensions here.
King. Then to compleat thy happiness, Take Galatea, since her Passion merits thee, As do thy Virtues her.