[14] [The proverb is, Everything hath an end, and a pudding hath two.]
[15] [The wife of Brutus.]
[16] [i.e., A fool. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 38.]
[ACT V.]
Enter Don Julio talking to himself, and at another door Fernando who, perceiving it, stands close.
Don J. Bless'd be the gods that yet my honour's safe
Amidst such strange perplexities, from which
Fortune and wit (I think) together join'd,
With all their strength, could hardly an issue find.
To temper, comfort, or to serve my friend
What argument? what means? how to assist
Don Pedro in his aims, and to comply
With what I owe the duke, I see as little;
And less conceive, how to behave myself,
As ought a gentleman towards a lady,
With whose protection he hath charg'd himself,
And brought her to his house on that assurance;
Whom to expose cannot consist with honour,
However she may have expos'd her own;
And (least of all) how to repair to Blanca
The injury I have done her, whose high spirit,
I fear, will be implacable. O heavens!
What a condition's mine?
[He stands pausing, and startles, seeing Don Fernando.
Enter Don Fernando.