The Laws of Candy Part 26

Scena Prima.

[Enter _Fernando_, and _Michael_]

Fernando:

The Senate is inform'd at full.

Michael:

_Gonzalo_ Dreams not of my arrival yet.

Fernando:

Nor thinks 'Tis possible his plots can be discover'd: He fats himself with hopes of Crowns, and Kingdoms, 286] And laughs securely, to imagine how He means to gull all but himself: when truly, None is so grosly gull'd as he.

Michael:

There was never A more arch villain.

Fernando:

Peace, the Senate comes.

[Enter _Porphicio_, _Pos._ Senators, and _Gaspero_, Attend]

Porphycio:

How closely Treason cloaks it self in forms Of Civil honesty!

Possenne:

And yet how palpably Does heaven reveal it!

Fernando:

Gracious Lords.

Gaspero:

The Emba.s.sadour, Lord _Paulo Michael_, Advocate To the great Duke of _Venice_.

Porphycio:

You are most welcome, Your Master is a just and n.o.ble Prince.

Michael:

My Lords, he bad me say, that you may know How much he scorns, and (as good Princes ought) Defies base indirect, and G.o.dless treacheries; To your more Sacred wisdomes he refers The punishment due to the false _Gonzalo_, Or else to send him home to _Venice_.

Possenne:

Herein The Duke is royal: _Gaspero_, the Prince Of _Cyprus_ answer'd he would come.

Gaspero:

My Lords, He will not long be absent.

[Enter _Philander_, and _Melitus_]

Porphycio:

You _Fernando_, Have made the State your debter: worthy Prince, We shall be sutors to you for your presence, In hearing, and determining of matters Greatly concerning _Candy_.

Philander:

Fathers, I am A stranger.

Possenne:

Why, the cause, my Lord, concerns A stranger: please you seat your self.

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Philander:

How e're Unfit, since you will have it so, my Lords, You shall command me.

Porphycio:

You my Lord _Fernando_, With the Amba.s.sador, withdraw a while.

Fernando:

My Lords, we shall.

[Ex.

Possenne:

Melitus, and the Secretary, Give notice to _Gonzalo_, that the Senate Requires his presence.

[Ex. _Gas._ and _Mel._

[Enter _Ca.s.silane_, and _Arca_]

Philander:

What concerns the business?

Porphycio: