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Show Tj2 The M I S T A K F. Lor. Then my Obligation is but fmall to you. Cam. Why, wou'd you have a W o m a n , that is in love with you her felf, imploy her Intereft to help you to another? . Lor. N o , but you being no W oman might. Cam. Sir, 'tis as a W o m a n I fay what I do, and I fuppofe m y felf a W o m a n when I defign all thefe Favours to you : Therefore out of that Suppofition, I have no other good Intentions to you than you may expert from any one that fays, he's Sir, your humble Servant. . . Lor. So unlefs Heav'n is pleas'd to work a Miracle, and from a fturdy young Fellow, make you a kind-hearted young Lady, I'm to get little by your good Opinion of me. . Cam. Yes *, there is one means yet left (on this iide a Miracle) that wou'd perhaps engage me, if with an honeft Oath you cou'd declare. Were I Woman, I j\ii»ht difpute your Heart, even with the firft of my pretending Sex. Lor. Then folemnly and honeftly 1 fwear, that had you been a W o m a n , and I the Mafter of the World, I think I fhou'd have laid it at your Feet. Cam. Then honeftly and folemnly I fwear, hencefor-wards all your Intereft fhall be mine. Lor. I have a Secret to impart to you will quickly try your Friend Pal p. Cam. I have a Secret to unfold to you, will put you even to a fiery TriaL . Lor. What do you mean, Camillo f Cam. I mean that I love, where I never durft yet own it. yet where 'tis in your power to make me the *?F'r. Explain, Cam.lh; and beaflur'd, if your Hap-pinefs is in m v power, 'tis in your own. ram Alas'1 vou promife m e vou know not what. uTl promffe nothing but'what 1 will perform; • name the Perfon. Cam. 'Tis one who's very near to you. The M I S T A K E ; 17J Lor. If'tis m y Sifter, why all this Pain in bringing forth the Secret ? ° Cam. Alas » It is y o u r - - . Lor. Speak ! Cam. I cannot yet; Farewel. Lor. Hold \ Pray fpeak it now. Cam. I muft not: But when you tell m e your Secret, you fhall know mine. Lor. Mine is not in m y power, without the Confent of another. Cam. Get that Confent, and then we'll try w h o beft Will keep their Oaths. Lor. I a m content. Cam. And I. Adieu. Lor. Farewel. (Exit Lorenzo. Enter Leonora and Jacinta. Leo. 'Tis enough: I will revenge my felf this way \ if it does but torment him, 1 fhall be content to find no other pleafure in it. Brother, you'll wonder at my Change; after all m y ill Ufage of Lorenzo, I a m de-termin'd to be his Wife. Cam. How, Sifter! fo fudden a Turn ? This Inequality of Temper indeed is not commendable. Leo. Your Change, Brother, is much more juftly fur-prizing ; you hitherto have pleaded for him ftrongly, accus'd m e of Blindnefs, Cruelty, and Pride ; and n o w I yield to your Reafons, and refolve in his Favour, you blame m y Compliance, and appear agamft his Intereft. Cam. I quit his Service for what's dearer to me, yours I have learn'd from fure Intelligence, the Attack he made on you was but a Feint, and that his Heart is in another's Chain *, I would not therefore fee you fo expos'd, to offer up your felf to one w h o muft refute you. Leo. If that be all, leave m e m v Honour to take care of; I a m no Stranger to his Wifhes, he won't refufe me, Brother, nor I hope will you, to tell him of m y Refolution : if you do, this moment with my o wn Tongue (thro all a Virgin's Blufhes) I'll o w n to him*I H 3 am |