Ant. [Aside to Maria.] Mother, is Julio’s body——

Mar. [Aside to Antonio.] Speak not, doubt not; all is above all hope.

Ant. [Aside.] Then will I dance and whirl about the air:
Methinks I am all soul, all heart, all spirit.
Now murder shall receive his ample merit.

The measure.

While the measure is dancing, Andrugio’s ghost is placed betwixt the music-houses.[319]

Pier. Bring hither suckets, candied delicates.    50
We’ll taste some sweetmeats, gallants, ere we sleep.

Ant.—We’ll cook your sweetmeats, gallants, with tart sour sauce.

Ghost of And. Here will I sit, spectator of revenge,
And glad my ghost in anguish of my foe.

[The maskers whisper with Piero.

Pier. Marry and shall; i’faith I were too rude,
If I gainsaid so civil fashion.—
The maskers pray you to forbear the room
Till they have banqueted. Let it be so:
No man presume to visit them, on death.