Cal. I must let him alone,
He's stout and able; and to say the truth,
However I may set a face, and talk,
I am not valiant: when I was a youth,
I kept my credit with a testie trick I had,
Amongst cowards, but durst never fight.
Mel. I will not promise to preserve your life if you do stay.
Cal. I would give half my Land that I durst fight with that proud man a little: if I had men to hold, I would beat him, till he ask me mercy.
Mel. Sir, will you be gone?
Cal. I dare not stay, but I will go home, and beat my servants all over for this.
[Exit Calianax.
Mel. This old fellow haunts me,
But the distracted carriage of mine Amintor
Takes deeply on me, I will find the cause;
I fear his Conscience cries, he wrong'd Aspatia.
Enter Amintor.
Amint. Mens eyes are not so subtil to perceive
My inward misery; I bear my grief
Hid from the World; how art thou wretched then?
For ought I know, all Husbands are like me;
And every one I talk with of his Wife,
Is but a well dissembler of his woes
As I am; would I knew it, for the rareness afflicts me
now.
Mel. Amintor, We have not enjoy'd our friendship of late,
for we were wont to charge our souls in talk.