LEL. Stay, I will go and pick a quarrel with him.
MASC. What good will that do?
LEL. What would you have me do to ward off this blow?
MASC. Well, I pardon you; I will yet cast an eye of pity on you. Leave me to watch them; I believe I shall discover what he intends to do by fairer means. (Exit Lelio).
TRUF. (To Leander). When you send by and by, it shall be done.
MASC. (Aside and going out). I must trap him and become his confidant, in order to baffle his designs the more easily.
LEAND. (Alone). Thanks to Heaven, my happiness is complete. I have found the way to secure it, and fear nothing more. Whatever my rival may henceforth attempt, it is no longer in his power to do me any harm.
SCENE IX.—LEANDER, MASCARILLE.
MASC. (Speaking these words within, and then coming on the stage). Oh! oh! Help! Murder! Help! They are killing me! Oh! oh! oh! oh! Traitor! Barbarian!
LEAND. Whence comes that noise? What is the matter? What are they doing to you?