chide ye, but it shall be thus,
No other anger ever touch your sweetness.

Estifania:

You appear to me so honest, and so civil,
Without a blush Sir, I dare bid ye welcom.

Michael Perez:

Now let me ask your name.

Estifania:

'Tis _Estifanie_, the heir of this poor place.

Michael Perez:

Poor do you call it?
There's nothing that I cast mine eyes upon,
But shews both rich and admirable, all the rooms
Are hung as if a Princess were to dwell here,
The Gardens, Orchards, every thing so curious:
Is all that plate your own too?

Estifania:

'Tis but little,
Only for present use, I have more and richer,
When need shall call, or friends compel me use it,
The sutes you see of all the upper chamber,
Are those that commonly adorn the house,
I think I have besides, as fair, as civil,
As any town in _Spain_ can parallel.

Michael Perez:

Now if she be not married, I have some hopes.
Are you a maid?

Estifania:

You make me blush to answer,
I ever was accounted so to this hour,
And that's the reason that I live retir'd Sir.

Michael Perez:

Then would I counsel you to marry presently,
180] (If I can get her, I am made for ever)
For every year you lose, you lose a beauty,
A Husband now, an honest careful Husband,
Were such a comfort: will ye walk above stairs?

Estifania:

This place will fit our talk, 'tis fitter far Sir,
Above there are day-beds, and such temptations
I dare not trust Sir.

Michael Perez:

She is excellent wise withal too.

Estifania:

You nam'd a husband, I am not so strict Sir,
Nor ti'd unto a Virgins solitariness,
But if an honest, and a noble one,
Rich, and a souldier, for so I have vowed he shall be,
Were offer'd me, I think I should accept him,
But above all he must love.

Michael Perez:

He were base else,
There's comfort ministred in the word souldier,
How sweetly should I live!

Estifania:

I am not so ignorant, but that I know well,
How to be commanded,
And how again to make my self obey'd Sir,
I waste but little, I have gather'd much,
My rial not the less worth, when 'tis spent,
If spent by my direction, to please my Husband,
I hold it as indifferent in my duty,
To be