'Tis a madness that he

Should be jealous of me,

Or that I should bar him of another:

For all we can gain,

Is to give ourselves pain,

When neither can hinder the other.

Enter Palamede, in a riding-habit, and hears the Song. Re-enter Doralice and Beliza.

Bel. Madam, a stranger.

Dor. I did not think to have had witnesses of my bad singing.

Pala. If I have erred, madam, I hope you'll pardon the curiosity of a stranger; for I may well call myself so, after five years absence from the court: but you have freed me from one error.