The Laws of Candy Part 25

What, nor love, nor mony?

Gonzalo:

Yes, love, I hope, not mony.

Ca.s.silanes:

All this braverie Will scarcely make that good.

Gonzalo:

'Tis done already: See Sir, your Mortgage which I only took, In case you and your son had in the wars Miscarried: I yield it up again: 'tis yours.

Ca.s.silanes:

Are ye so conscionable?

Gonzalo:

'Tis your own.

Ca.s.silanes:

Pish, pish, I'le not receive what is not mine, That were a dangerous business.

Gonzalo:

Sir, I am paid for't, The summes you borrowed, are return'd; The bonds Cancel'd, and your acquittance formerly seal'd: Look here Sir, _Gaspero_ is witness to it.

Gaspero:

My honoured Lord, I am.

Gonzalo:

My Lord _Fernando_, _Arcanes_ and the rest, you all shall testifie, That I acquit Lord _Ca.s.silane_ for ever, Of any debts to me.

Gaspero:

'Tis plain and ample: Fortune will once again smile on us fairly.

Ca.s.silanes:

But hark ye, hark ye, if you be in earnest, Whence comes this bounty? or whose is't?

Gonzalo:

In short, 285] The great _Erota_ by this Secretary, Return'd me my full due.

Ca.s.silanes:

_Erota_? why Should she do this?

Gonzalo:

You must ask her the cause, She knows it best.

Ca.s.silanes:

So ho, _Arcanes_, none But women pity us? soft-hearted women?

I am become a brave fellow now, _Arcanes_, Am I not?

Arcanes:

Why Sir, if the gracious Princess Have took more special notice of your services, And means to be more thankfull than some others, It were an injury to grat.i.tude, To disesteem her favours.

Annophel:

Sir she ever For your sake most respectively lov'd me.

Ca.s.silanes:

The Senate, and the body of this Kingdom Are herein (let me speak it without arrogance) Beholding to her: I will thank her for it; And if she have reserv'd a means whereby I may repay this bounty with some service, She shall be then my Patroness: come Sirs, We'I taste a cup of wine together now.

Gonzalo:

_Fernando_, I must speak with you in secret.

Fernando:

You shall--Now _Gaspero_, all's well.

Gaspero:

There's news You must be acquainted with.

Come, there is no master-piece in Art, like Policie.

[Exeunt.

Actus Quintus