ez' portal; and his wife, my penitent, making doleful lamentations:
thereupon, making what haste my limbs would suffer me, that are
crippled with often kneeling, I saw him spurning and listing her most
unmercifully; whereupon, using Christian arguments with him to desist,
he fell violently upon me, without respect to my sacerdotal orders,
pushed me from him, and turned me about with a finger and a thumb,
just as a man would set up a top. Mercy! quoth I.--Damme! quoth
he;--and still continued labouring me, until a good-minded colonel
came by, whom, as heaven shall save me, I had never seen before.

_Gom._ O Lord! O Lord!

_Dom._ Ay, and O lady! O lady too!--I redouble my oath, I had never
seen him. Well, this noble colonel, like a true gentleman, was for
taking the weaker part, you may be sure; whereupon this Gomez flew
upon him like a dragon, got him down, the devil being strong in him,
and gave him bastinado upon bastinado, and buffet upon buffet, which
the poor meek colonel, being prostrate, suffered with a most Christian
patience.

_Gom._ Who? he meek? I'm sure I quake at the very thought of him; why,
he's as fierce as Rhodomont; he made assault and battery upon my
person, beat me into all the colours of the rainbow; and every word
this abominable priest has uttered is as false as the Alcoran. But if
you want a thorough-paced liar, that will swear through thick and
thin, commend me to a friar.

_Enter_ LORENZO, _who comes behind the Company, and stands at his
Fathers back unseen, over-against_ GOMEZ.

_Lor._ How now! What's here to do? my cause a trying, as I live, and
that before my own father.--Now fourscore take him for an old bawdy
magistrate, that stands like the picture of madam Justice, with a pair
of scales in his hand, to weigh lechery by ounces! [_Aside._

_Alph._ Well--but all this while, who is this colonel Hernando?

_Gom._ He's the first begotten of Beelzebub, with a face as terrible
as Demogorgon. [LORENZO _peeps over_ ALPHONSO'S _Head,
and stares at_ GOMEZ.
No! I lie, I lie. He's a very proper handsome fellow! well
proportioned, and clean shaped, with a face like a cherubin.

_Ped._ What, backward and forward, Gomez! dost thou hunt counter?

_Alph._ Had this colonel any former design upon your wife? for, if
that be proved, you shall have justice.

_Gom._ [_Aside._] Now I dare speak,--let him look as dreadfully as he
will.--I say