Don O. Y' are married, and expose what's not your own.
Don A. Wedded to honour, that must yield to none.
Don O. Honour makes me refuse your aid; we must
As well to friends as to ourselves be just.
Don A. He ought not to pretend to friendship's name,
Who reckons not himself and friend the same.
Don O. Friendship with justice must not disagree,
That were to break the virtue's harmony.
Don A. Friendship is justice; for whene'er we give,
We then receive: so 'tis commutative.
Don O. So great's your friendship, you your friend oppress:
To make it juster, you must make it less.
Don A. Friendship can never err in the extent:
Like Nile, when't overflows, 'tis most beneficent.
Don O. I find, Antonio, you will still subdue.
Don A. I owe my triumph to my cause, not you.
Come, we lose time; your mistress must not stay.