Enter Blasco.

Well, count, what news?

BLASCO.

Excellent.—Manuel was drowned, drowned like a dog.

I have seen the captain of the ship that ’scaped.

He tells that, putting forth at night, they kept

Their course till dawn, when in a fog they drave

On the French fleet, some two-and-twenty sail.

Of our five vessels three were taken: one,

His own, escaped, and the other—that’s the one