much in
love am I. Ah this Turkish is an admirable language!
_Citizen turned Gentleman_, Act. IV.

In the same piece, we are presented with a grand chorus of Turks
and Dervises, who sing, "_Hu la baba la chou ba la baba la da._"

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

_Duke of Mantua._
_Prince_ FREDERICK, _his son._
AURELIAN, _a Roman Gentleman._
CAMILLO, _his friend._
MARIO, _Governor of Rome._
ASCANIO, _page of honour to the Prince._
BENITO, _Servant to_ AURELIAN.
VALERIO, _confidant to the Duke._
FABIO, _Servant to_ MARIO.

SOPHRONIA, _Abbess of the Torr' di Specchi._
LUCRETIA, _a Lady designed to be a Nun._
HIPPOLITA, _a Nun._
LAURA, }
VIOLETTA } _Sisters, nieces to_ MARIO.
FRONTONA, _lets Lodgings._

_SCENE--Rome._

THE

ASSIGNATION;

OR,

LOVE IN A NUNNERY.

ACT I.

SCENE I.--_A Room, a great glass placed._

_Enter_ BENITO, _with a guitar in his hand._

_Ben._ [_Bowing to the glass._] Save you, sweet signior Benito; by my
faith I am glad to see you look so bonnily to-day. Gad, sir, every
thing becomes you to a miracle: your peruke, your clothes, your hat,
your shoe-ties; and, gad, sir, let me tell you, you become every
thing; you walk with such a grace, and you bow so pliantly!

_Aurelian._ [_Within._] Benito, where are you, sirrah?

_Ben._ Sirrah! That my damned master should call a man of my
extraordinary endowments, sirrah! A man of my endowments? Gad, I ask
my own pardon, I mean a person of my endowments; for a man of my parts
and talents, though he be but a _valet de chambre_, is a person; and
let me tell my master--Gad, I frown too, as like a person as any
jack-gentleman of them all; but, gad, when I do not frown, I am an
absolute beauty, whatever this glass says to the contrary; and, if
this glass deny it, 'tis a base lying glass; so I'll tell it to its
face, and kick it down into the bargain.

_Aur._ [_Within._] Why, Benito, how long shall we stay for you?

_Ben._ I come, sir.--What the devil would he have? But, by his favour,
I'll first survey my dancing and my singing. [_He plays on his guitar,
and dances and sings to the glass._] I think that was not amiss: I
think so. Gad, I can dance [_Lays down the guitar._] and play no
longer, I am in such a rapture w