Xim. What would you more?

Vera. [To her.] Are you the mediatrix of this peace?

Xim. It well becomes the softness of my sex

To mediate for sweet peace, the best of blessings;

And, like a Sabine wife, to run betwixt

Relations' lifted swords.

Ver. A rare chaste Sabine, you!

To save the adulterer of thy husband's bed.

See there, Alphonso's father, that old goat,

Who on two sisters propagated lust,