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No; He's fast. A happiness Those Tramontaines never cast. Yes, and drink more in two hours Then the Dutchmen, or the Dane in four and twenty. Why here is a brave fellow, and a right one, Nor wealth, nor greatness makes him proud. To the round Gallery. In the afternoon Sir, It's a device Iwis of my own making, And such a one, as shall make your Signiorship know I have not been your Butlar for nothing, but I have crotchets in my head. We'll trip it titely, And make my sad young Mistress merry again, Or I'll forswore the Cellar. When I was young I could have cut a caper on a pinnacle, But now I am old & wise, keep your figure fair, And follow but the sample I shall set you, The Duke himself will send for us, and laugh at us, And that were credit. Fellow Calandrino! When shall we learn such gambols in our villam? Have you forgotten to dance? We will want no wine. Ever I'll lose my dance, I'll speak to the purpose. I am Sir no Prologue, But in plain terms must tell you, we are provided Of a lusty Hornpipe. But to make up the medley, For it is of several colours, for we must borrow Your Graces Ghost here. Heaven preserve you.
Plot summary
Plot — The Great Duke of Florence
The Great Duke -Gosimo, a childless widower, rejects his courtiers suggestion that he should marry his: ward Fiorinda. His: nephew Giovanni; who-has been educated by Carolo in the country, is recalled to court and adopted as his heir. Giovanni's main regret is that he must-leave Lydia, Carolo’s daughter, so he asks Fiorinda to bring her to court as a lady-in-waiting. Fiorinda asks that, in-return, he intercede. with the Duke to stop sending his favounte, Sannazaro, to war; she is attracted to ‘him, though he seems ‘not to notice. Cosinio announces his intention that Giovanni should marry Fiorinda and, hearing of his interest in Lydia, sends Sannazare to investigate. Sannazaro completes the love-quadrangle by becoming enamoured of Lydia himself. - Sannazaro infers that Cosimo is considering Lydia asa bride, which puts him in a quandary; ifhe faithfully reports his estimation of Lydia’s beauty, he will lose his own: chance: of having her. He tries to persuade Giovanni that it-would-be a bad thing for Cosimo to remarry and disinherit hini by begetting a son, but Giovanni is only concerned that Cosimo might deprive him of Lydia. They both talk down Lydia's beauty in order to dampen Cosimo’s imagined ardour. Then Fiorinda asks Cosinio's permission to introduce Lyxlia to her court, citing Giovanni's recommendation. ===== PAGE 274 ===== Realizing he has been deceived, Cosimo visits Carolo’s home. Giovanni writes to give Lydia advance warning of what he understands to be Cosimo’s dishonourable intentions, and they contrive to have her drunken servant Petronella introduced in her place. Cosimo is duly repelled, and criticizes Carolo for giving her inadequate fatherly guidance. The ruse collapses when Carolo summons the real Lydia. Cosimo has Sannazaro and Giovanni confined and summons the court. Sannazaro manages to get a message to Fiorinda, scratched onto a pane of glass which he drops to her as she arrives. She asks Cosimo to restore him to favour, and agrees to accept him as her husband even after she has heard of his interest in Lydia. Cosimo appoints Lydia and Fiorinda to judge the miscreants, reserving to himself the role of prosecutor. He reminds them that he has sworn not to marry again, and pardons Giovanni and Sannazaro upon ascertaining that Lydia and Fiorinda really do love them.