g her to you.

_Mel._ You'll pardon the effects of a passion which I may now avow for
you, if it transported me beyond the rules of _bienseance._

_Pala._ But, who told you I was here? they, that told you that, may
tell you more, for aught I know.

_Rho._ O, for that matter, we had intelligence.

_Pala._ But let me tell you, we came hither so very privately, that
you could not trace us.

_Rho._ Us! what us? you are alone.

_Pala._ Us! the devil's in me for mistaking:--me, I meant. Or us, that
is, you are me, or I you, as we are friends: That's us.

_Dor._ Palamede, Palamede! [_Within._

_Rho._ I should know that voice; who's within there, that calls you?

_Pala._ Faith, I can't imagine; I believe the place is haunted.

_Dor._ Palamede, Palamede, all-cocks hidden. [_Within._

_Pala._ Lord, Lord, what shall I do?--Well, dear friend, to let you
see I scorn to be jealous, and that I dare trust my mistress with you,
take her back, for I would not willingly have her frighted, and I am
resolved to see who's there; I'll not be daunted with a bugbear,
that's certain:--Prithee, dispute it not, it shall be so; nay do not
put me to swear, but go quickly: There's an effort of pure friendship
for you now.

_Enter_ DORALICE, _and looks amazed, seeing them._

_Rho._ Doralice! I am thunder-struck to see you here.

_Pala._ So am I! quite thunder-struck. Was it you, that called me
within?--I must be impudent.

_Rho._ How came you hither, spouse?

_Pala._ Ay, how came you hither? And, which is more, how could you be
here without my knowledge?

_Dor._ [_To her husband._] O, gentlemen, have I caught you i'faith!
have I broke forth in ambush upon you! I thought my suspicions would
prove true.

_Rho._ Suspicions! this is very fine, spouse! Prithee, what
suspicions?

_Dor._ O, you feign ignorance: Why, of you and Melantha; here have I
staid these two hours, waiting with all the rage of a passionate,
loving wife, but infinitely jealous, to take you two in the manner;
for hither I was certain you would come.

_Rho._ But you are mistaken, spouse, in the occasion; for we came
hither on purpose to find Palamede, on intelligence he was gone
before.

_Pala._ I'll be hanged then, if the same party, who gave you
intelligence I was here, did not tell your wife you would come hither.
Now I smell the malice on't on both sides.

_Dor._ Was it so, think you? nay, then, I'll confes