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Show ,68 The MISTAKE. carry back the too gentle Anfwer thou haft receiv'd *, On. ly let m e add with the Poet : We are no Fools, Trollop, my Mafter, nor me ; And thy Miftrefs may go to the Devil with thee. ' - • ' (Exit Sancho. Jacinta fola. A m I awake ! 1 fancy not; a very idle Dream this. Well : I'll go talk in m y Sleep to m y Lady about it • 'and when I awake, we'll try what Interpretation we can make on't. (Exit. A c T n. s c E N E I. Enter Camillo and Ifabella. Ifab.XfJ O W can you doubt m y Secrecy j Have you \~\ not Proofs of it ? Cam. Nay, I a m determin'd to truft you j but are we fafe here ? Can no body overhear us ? Ifab. Safer much than in a Room. N o body can come within hearing, before w e fee them. Cam. And yet how hard 'tis for m e to break Silence? Ifab. Your Secret fare muft be of great Importance.^ Cam. You may be fure it is, when I confefs 'tis with Regret I o w n it" e'en to you ; and were it polTible, you fhou'd not know it. Ifab. 'Tis frankly own'd indeed; but 'tis not kind, perhaps not prudent, after what you know I already am acquainted with. Have not I been bred up with you? And a m I ignorant of a Secret, which were it k n o w n- Cam. Wou'd be m y Ruin, I confefs it wou'd. I own you know why both m y Birth and Sex are thus difguis'd ; vou know how I was taken from m y Cradle to fecure the Eftate, which had elfe been loft by young Camillas Death : but which is n o w fafe in my fuppos'd Father s ' hands, oneDoub, *&, dJg^.JS^gg*^ whether Don W v + n , ever vva., fcWfetf „;v' , 1 "' MyJ.y which oas di%llis>d „ly Sex, ^ f c £ J fab. What vou a«;k me •*• * »u* i r i •',. T-L ; . 5 IS a thjng has often perplex d m y Thoughts as well as yoursfnor cou'd my Motherever refolve the Doubt. You know when & young Child Camilla dy'd, in w h o m was wrapp'd up fo much Expectation from the great Eftate his Uncle's Will C^ven before he came into the World) had left him ; his Mother made a Secret of his Death to her Huf-band Alvarez, and readily fell in with a Propofal made her to take you (who then were juft Camilla's A*e) and bring you up in his room. You have heard how you were then at Nurfe with m y Mother, and how your o wn was privy and confenting to the Plot • but Don Alva-n\ was never let into it by 'em. Cam. Don't you then think it probable his Wife mi»ht after tell him ? ^ Ifab. 'Twas ever thought, nothing but a Death-bed P^e-pentance cou'd draw it from her to any one; and that was prevented by the Suddennefs of her Exit to t'other World, which did not give her even Time to call Heaven's Mercy on her. And yet, now I have faid all this, I own the Correfpondence and Friendship I obferve he holds with your real Mother, gives m e fome Sufpicion, and the Prefents he often makes her (which People fcl-doin do for nothing) confirm it. But fince this is all I can fay to you on that Point, pray let us come to the Secret, which you have made m e impatient to hear. Cam. K n o w then, that tho Cupid is blind, he is not. tobedeceiv'd; I can hide m y Sex from the World, but not from him ; his Dart has found the way thro the manly Garb 1 wear, to pierce a Virgin's tender H e a r t , - 1 love--«- Ifab. H o w ! Vol.n. H Cam |