The Laws of Candy Part 12

O good cousin, now I have you: I'le meet you in your Coat.

Mochingo:

Coat? I have my horse-mans coat I must confess Lin'd through with Velvet, and a Scarlet out-side; If you'll meet me in't, I'le send for't; And cousin you shall see me with much comfort, For it is both a new one, and a right one, It did not come collateral.

Gonzalo:

Adieu good cousin; at this present I have some business.

Mochingo:

Farewel, excellent cousin.

Actus Tertius

Scena Prima

[Enter _Gonzalo_, and _Fernando_.]

Gonzalo:

_Candy_, I say, is lost already.

Fernando:

Yes, If to be conqueror be to be lost.

Gonzalo:

You have it; one days conquest hath undone them.

And sold them to their va.s.salage; for what Have I else toyl'd my brains, profusely emptied My moneys, but to make them slaves to _Venice_, That so in case the sword did lose his edge, Then art might sharpen hers?

Fernando:

_Gonzalo_ how?

Gonzalo:

_Fernando_ thus: you see how through this Land, Both of the best and basest I am honour'd; I only gave the State of _Venice_ notice, When, where, and how to land, or you had found 262] A better entertainment: I was he Encourag'd young _Antinous_ to affront The Devil his Father: for the Devil I think Dares not do more in battel.

Fernando:

But why did ye?

I find no such great policie in that.

Gonzalo:

Indeed _Fernando_, thou canst fight, not plot: Had they continu'd one, they two alone Were of sufficient courage and performance To beat an Armie.

Fernando:

Now by all my hopes, I rather shall admire, than envy vertue.

Gonzalo:

Why then by all your hopes you'l rather have Your Brains knockt out, than learn how to be wise; You States-man? Well Sir, I did more than this, When _Ca.s.silane_ crav'd from the common treasure Pay for his Souldiers, I strook home, and lent him An hundred thousand Duckets.

Fernando:

Marry Sir, The policy was little, the love l[e]ss, And honesty least of all.

Gonzalo:

How say ye by that?

Go fight, I say goe fight, I'le talk no more with you, You are insensible.

Fernando:

Well, I shall observe ye.

Gonzalo:

Why look you Sir, by this means have I got The greatest part of _Ca.s.silanes_ estate Into my hands, which he can ne're redeem, But must of force sink: do you conceive me now?

Fernando:

So: But why have you importuned the Senate, For me to sojourn with them?

Gonzalo:

There's the quintessence, The soul, and grand elixir of my wit: For he (according to his n.o.ble nature) Will not be known to want, though he do want, And will be bankrupted so much the sooner, And made the subject of our scorn and laughter.

Fernando:

Here's a perfect plotted stratagem.

Gonzalo:

Why? could you 263] Imagine, that I did not hate in heart My Countryes enemies? yes, yes, _Fernando_, And I will be the man that shall undoe them.

Fernando: