Basilisco.

Not Mars himself had e'er so fair a buckler.

Perseda.

Love makes him blind; and blind can judge no colour.[401]

Lucina.

Why, then, the mends is made, and we still friends.

Perseda.

Still friends? still foes! she wears my carcanet.
Ah, false Erastus, how am I betray'd! [Aside.

Lucina.