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Show 28+ A N EVENINGS LOVE: OR, THE Mock-Aftrologer. ACT I. SCENE I. Bon Lopez, and a Servant, walking over the Stage. Enter another Servant and follows him. On Lopez? Lop. Any new bufinefs r Ser. M y Mafter had forgot this Letter. Which he conjures you, as you are his friend, To give Aurelia from him. Lop. Tell Don Melchor 'tis a hard task which he enjoyns m e: He knows I love her, and much more than he; For I love her alone, but he divides His paffion betwixt two: Did he confider H o w great a pain 'tis to diffemble love, He would never praaife it. Ser. He knows his fault, but cannot mend it. LotX T o make the poor Aurelia believe He's gone for Flanders, whilft he lies conceal'd, And every night makes vifits to her Coufin. When will he leave this ftrange extravagance ? Ser. When he can love one more, or t'other lefs. Lop. Before I lov'd m y felf, I promis'd him To ferve him in his love; and I'll perform it, Howe'r repugnant to m y own concernments. Serv. You are a noble Cavalier. [Exit Servant, Enter Bellamy, Wildblood, Maskal. 2. Serv. Sir, your Guefts of the Englifh Ambaffador's Retinue. Lop. Cavaliers, will you pleafe to command m y Coach to take the Air this evening? ^Bell. W e have not yet refolv'd how to difpofe of our felves; but however, w e are highly acknowledging to you, for your civility. Lop. You cannot more oblige me, than by laying your Commands on me. Wild. W e kits your hands. [Exit.Lopez cum Servo, Bell. Give the Don his due, he entertain'd us nobly this Carnival. Wild. Give the Devil the Don, for any thing I lik'd in his Entertainment. Bell. I liope w e had variety enough. Wild. I, it look'd like variety, till w e came totafteit; there were twenty fe-veral Difhes to the Eye, but in the pallat nothing but Spices. I had a mind to eat ofaPheafant, and as foon as I got it into m y mouth, I found I was chawing a limb of Cinamon ; then I went to cut apiece of Kid, and no fooner it had touch'd m y Lips, but it turn'd to red Pepper: at laft I began to think m y felf another kind of Midas, that every thing I touch'd fhould be turn'd into Spice. Bell. And for m y part,' I imagin'd his Catholick Majefty had invited us to eat his Indies But prethee let's leave the difcourfe of it, and contrive together how w e may fpcnd the evening; for in this hot Countrey, 'tis as in the Creation, the Even-lngnnd the Morning make the day. Wild. I have a little ferious bufinefs. Bell. Put it off till a filter feafon: for tht truth is, bufinefs is then only tolerable. f}e A i ick Apobger. Tik the re-conqueft of Flanders .• fly fa„ t0 SKn! four are going to their Courtezans I te1 r l T % i . * £ Bel. Nay, good W, mine is but a Miftrefs in Embrio; ttemffeffi™ «f i is at caft fome ten days off and till t-w -: -i lullu> nie pon-non of her of brfrt, to b,„w the eo^v^nT^e^Z^tSlS^ I come to proieaion. b ai0nc when ^mid. You muft excufe me, Frank; I have made an appointment at the Gaming-i^ i^C^ wliich kind fortune thatis not it--^ unyt M rUnmnS m >'our Hcad' and ^ep you virtuous. ' P P$ Wild. Marriage quoth-a! what doft thou think 1 have been bred in the Defarts of Africk, or among the Savages of America ? nay, if I had, I muft needs have ferTray"6" &S ; * HSht of Nature 5wM not We let me gone fo Bell. Well ! What think you ofthe Prado this evening ? Wild. Poxupon't, 'tis worfe than our contemplative Hide-Park Bell. O ! but w e muft fubmit to the cuftom of the Counrrev for Courtfbip-whatever the means are, w e are fure the end is ftill the time in all places But who are thefe ? * UL • Enter Don Alonzo de Ribera, with his two Daughters Theodolia and Jacinta and Beatrix their Woman paffin? by. Theo. D o you fee thofe ftrangers, Sifter, that eve us fo earneftly ? T iM\ r"?' a,naISue t fs'emto'be feathers ofthe Englifh Ambaffador's Train- for I think I law c m at the grand Audience And have the ftrangeft temptation in the world to talk to 'em: A mifchief on this modefty. Beat. A mifchief of this Father of yours that haunts you fo. Jac. 'Tis very true Beatrix ; for though I am the younger'Sifter, I fhould have the grace to lay modefty firft afide: however, Sifter, let us pull up our Vails, and gl M^!?1 a*n. 5*7 °f ?Ur F J aCCS* , &** ttlli "tthttr Fails> a»dPul1 '«* down agen. Wild. A h UeSamyl undone, undone! doft thou fee thofe Beauties ? Bell. Prithee Wildblood'hold thy tongue, and do not fpoil m y Contemplation ; I a m undoing m y felf as fait as e're I can too. Wild. I muft go to 'em. Befl. Hold Madman; doft thou not fee their Father ? haft thou a mind to have our Throats cut? Wild. By a Hcftor of fourfcorc ? Hang our Throats, what a Lover and cau-ou. s f- _, [Isgotn? towards them. Alon. C o m e away Daughters, w e fhall be late elfe. Bell. Look, you, they are on the wing already. Wild. Prithee, dear Frank, let's follow 'em: I long to know who they are. Mask. Let m e alone, I'll dog 'em for you. Bell. I am glad on't, for mythooes fo pinch m e , I can fcarce go a ftep farther. Wild. Crofs thc way there lives a Shoomaker : away quickly, that w e may not fpoil our Man's defign. XExit Bell. W i l * Alon. offers to go off- N o w friend! what's your bufinefs to follow us ? Mask. Noble Don; 'tis only to recommend m y fervice to you: a certain violent paffion I have had for your worfhip fince the firft moment that I faw you. Alon. I never faw thee before to m y remembrance. Mask. N o matter, Sir, true Love never ftands upon ceremony. Alon. Prithee be gone m y faucy companion, I'll clap an Alguazile upon thy heels ; I tell thee I have no need of thy fervice. Mask..Having nofervant ofyourown,I cannot ingood manners leave youdeftitute; Alon. I'll beat thee if thou foliow'ft me. Mask. tious |