Aust. Never.

Count. Just now, her coldness to my son,

You said, bespoke her heart preoccupied.

The frail and fair make you their oracles;

Pent in your close confessionals you sit,

Bending your reverend ears to amorous secrets.

Aust. Scoffer, no more! stop thy licentious tongue;

Turn inward to thy bosom, and reflect—

Count. That is, be fool'd. Yet will I grant his life,

On one condition.