_Hip_. And I'll maintain Honoria's right against her,
In any part of all the world.
_Gons_. You go
Too far, to quarrel on so slight a ground.
_Hip_. O pardon me, my lord, it is not slight:
I must confess, I am so much concerned,
I shall not bear it long.
_Amid_. Nor I, assure you.
_Gons_. I will believe what both of you have said,
That Honoria, and Angelina,
Both equally are fair.
_Amid_. Why did you name
Honoria first?
_Gons_. And, since you take their parts so eagerly
Henceforth I'll call you by those ladies' names:
You, my Hippolito, shall be Honoria;
And you, my Amideo, Angelina.
_Amid_. Then all my services, I wish, may make
You kind to Angelina, for my sake.
_Hip_. Put all my merits on Honoria's score,
And think no maid could ever love you more.
[_Exeunt_.
ACT IV. SCENE I.
MANUEL _solus_.
_Man_. Thus I provide for others' happiness,
And lose my own. 'Tis true, I cannot blame
Thy hatred, Angelina, but thy silence.
Thy brother's hatred made thine just; but yet
'Twas cruel in thee not to tell me so.
Conquest is noble, when an heart stands out;
But mine, which yielded, how could'st thou betray?
That heart, of which thou could'st not be deprived
By any force or power, beside thy own;
Like empires, to that fatal height arrived,
They must be ruined by themselves alone.
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