Upon mine honour, (for I tell thee all,)

Always in honour bounded. At that time

In an ill hour my father plann’d a marriage

Between me and Don Juan—yours, you know,

Came here to Naples, whence he sent your brother,

I know not on what business, into Spain;

And we agreed, I mean Alvaro and I,

Rather than vex two fathers at one time

By any declaration of our vows,

’Twere best to keep them secret—at the least,