Enter Don Scipio.

Don Scipio. Cut my throat!—What, are you at your dreams again?

Spado. [Aside.] Oh, zounds!—Yes, sir, as I was telling you.

Don Scipio. Of a little fellow you have the worst dreams I ever heard.

Spado. Shocking, sir—then I thought—

Don Scipio. Hold, hold, let me hear no more of your curst dreams.

Spado. I've got off, thanks to his credulity.

[Aside.

Don Scipio. What portmanteau's that?

Spado. 'Sdeath, I'm on again!