Enter Dondolo laughing.
Don. Ha, ha, ha!
Herc. Why dost laugh, fool, here’s nobody with thee?
Don. Why, therefore do I laugh, because there’s nobody with me. Would I were a fool alone! I’faith, I am come to attend—let me go,—I am sent to the princess, to come and attend her father to the end of Cupid’s Parliament. 32
Herc. Why, ha’ they sat already upon any statutes?
Don. Sat? ay, all’s agreed in the nether house!
Herc. Why, are they divided?
Don. O ay, in Cupid’s Parliament all the young gallants are o’ the nether house, and all the old signiors that can but only kiss are of the upper house. Is the princess above?
Herc. No, sure; I think the princess is beneath, man. Ha’ they supp’d, fool? 41
Don. O yes, the confusion of tongues at the large table is broke up, for see the presence fills. A fool, a fool, a fool, my coxcomb for a fool!