Ped. I know that; I only wish you would be so gracious as to tell me where you are next bound, that I may take good care not to go thither. But I know one place at least to which you cannot follow me—my own estate—and thither I set off immediately.

[Exit.

Gil. We are alone. Come, I will tell you first

My story. As you say you saw us last,

Alonso and myself, in Portugal;

Such an escape as (so the wise men say)

Is from the frying-pan into the fire.

We landing from the river on the estate

Of that great potentate the High Admiral.

Whose cousin, it turn’d out, was the very man