ve) I'll give you
leave to see me once more at a House at the Corner of St. _Jerom's_,
where this Maid shall give you Entrance.

_Alon._ Why, that's generously said.

_Euph._ As soon 'tis dark you may venture.

_Alon._ Till then will be an Age, farewel, fair Saint,
To thee and all my quiet till we meet. [Exeunt.

ACT II.

SCENE I. _The Street._

Enter _Marcel_ in a Cloak alone.

_Mar._ The Night comes on, and offers me two Pleasures,
The least of which would make another blest,
Love and Revenge: but I, whilst I dispute
Which Happiness to chuse, neglect them both.
The greatest Bliss that Mankind can possess,
Persuades me this way, to my fair _Clarinda:_
But tyrannick Honour
Presents the Credit of my House before me,
And bids me first redeem its fading Glory,
By sacrificing that false Woman's Heart
That has undone its Fame.
But stay, Oh Conscience, when I look within,
And lay my Anger by, I find that Sin
Which I would punish in _Antonio's_ Soul,
Lie nourish'd up in mine without Controul.
To fair _Clarinda_ such a Siege I lay,
As did that Traitor to _Hippolyta_;
Only _Hippolyta_ a Brother has,
_Clarinda_, none to punish her Disgrace:
And 'tis more Glory the defenc'd to win,
Than 'tis to take unguarded Virtue in.
I either must my shameful Love resign,
Or my more brave and just Revenge decline.

[Enter _Alonzo_ drest, with _Lovis_. _Marcel_ stays.

_Alon._ But to be thus in love, is't not a Wonder, _Lovis_?

_Lov._ No, Sir, it had been much a greater, if you had stay'd a Night in
Town without being so; and I shall see this Wonder as often as you see a
new Face of a pretty Woman.

_Alon._ I do not say that I shall lose all Passion for the fair Sex
hereafter; but on my Conscience, this amiable Stranger has given me a
deeper Wound than ever I received from any before.

_Lov._ Well, you remember the Bargain.

_Alon._ What Bargain?

_Lov._ To communicate; you understand.

_Alon._ There's the Devil on't, she is not such a Prize: Oh, were she
not honest, Friend!
[Hugs him.

_Lov._ Is it so to do? What, you pretend to be a Lover, and she honest,
now only to deprive me of my Part: remember this, _Alonzo_.

_Mar._ Did not I hear _Alonzo_ nam'd? [Aside.

_Alon._ By all that's good I am in earnest, Friend;
Nay thy own Eyes shall convince thee
Of the Power of hers.
Her Veil fell off, and she appear'd to me,
Like unexpected D