Good friends,
Know you my brother, the Lord Theodorus?
I have something urgent I would say to him.
I will write it down, and you shall give it him
When he comes forth from the banquet.
[Disappears.
1st Lab. Good my lady. Her brother, too, she calls him. I go bail it is her lover, and this is an assignation. Well, well, we poor men must not be too particular.
2nd Lab. No, indeed; but let us get on with our work, or we shall never finish in time.
Ire. (reappearing). Here it is. Give it him, I pray, when he comes forth.
'Tis a thing of life and death.