you at your couch,
Corbaccio will arrive straight, with the Will;
When he is gone, I’ll tell you more.

[Exit.

Volp. My blood,
My spirits are return’d; I am alive:
And, like your wanton gamester at primero,
Whose thought had whisper’d to him, not go less,
Methinks I lie, and draw—for an encounter.

[The scene closes upon Volpone.

Scene II.The Passage leading to Volpone’s Chamber.

Enter Mosca and Bonario.

Mos. Sir, here conceal’d, [shews him a closet.] you may hear all.
But, pray you,
Have patience, sir; [knocking within.]—the same’s your father
knocks:
I am compell’d to leave you.

[Exit.

Bon. Do so.—Yet
Cannot my thought imagine this a truth.

[Goes into the closet.

Scene III.Another Part of the same.

Enter Mosca and Corvino, Cella following.

Mos. Death on me! you are come too soon, what meant you?
Did not I say, I would send?

Corv. Yes, but I fear’d

You might forget it, and then they prevent us.

Mos. Prevent! did e’er man haste so, for his horns?
A courtier would not ply it so, for a place.

[Aside.

Well, now there is no helping it, stay here;
I’ll presently return.

[Exit.

Corv. Where are you, Celia?
You know not wherefore I have brought you hither?

Cel. Not well, except you told me.

Corv. Now, I will:
Hark hither.

[Exeunt.

Scene IV.A Closet opening into a Gallery.

Enter Mosca and Bonario.

Mos. Sir, your father hath sent word,
It will be half an hour ere he come;
And therefore, if you please to walk the while
Into that gallery—at the upper end,
There are some books to entertain the time:
And I’ll take care no man shall come unto you, sir.


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