[530] A ball of perfumed paste, worn round the neck or at the girdle.
SCENE II.
Before the Citadel.
Enter, from opposite sides, Malevole and Maquerelle, singing.
Mal. The Dutchman for a drunkard,—
Maq. The Dane for golden locks,—
Mal. The Irishman for usquebaugh,—
Maq. The Frenchman for the (——).
Mal. O, thou art a blessed creature! had I a modest woman to conceal, I would put her to thy custody; for
no reasonable creature would ever suspect her to be in thy company: ah, thou art a melodious Maquerelle,—thou picture of a woman, and substance of a beast!