Enter Armando.

 Arm. Dear Friend, I heard The Conflict of your Passion, and my Joys Are now compleat, since Virtue gains the Day.

 Bass. Yes, dear Armando, the Conflict is o'er, And I'm resolv'd to fly to my Placentia. 

 Arm. Cherish that Thought: By Heaven your Resolution Transports my Soul with Joy! A kind, a virtuous Wife waits your Embraces; A Wife, who like a Turtle mourns the Absence Of her dear Mate. Haste then, my Friend, to drive That Cloud of Sorrow which o'ercasts her Mind, And, like the Sun, dispel her gloomy Thoughts. 

Bass. Thanks for your Counsel—— You like a God support my feeble Virtue. This very Morning I'll prepare for Turin, Where Time and Absence will deface the Image Of that bewitching Beauty, which now haunts My tortur'd Mind—Yet, first I'll take my Leave Of this fair Charmer——And Heaven grant That I may see her unconcern'd—— 

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Arm. My Lord, what d'you mean? Have you well weigh'd the Danger of this Visit? 

Bass. What danger can there be?

Arm. Danger! my Lord—Consider well how feeble Our Reason is against the Pow'r of Beauty——

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Bass. My Resolution's firm; no Charm can shake it.

Arm. If not her Beauty, fear her Syren Tongue; fear her endearing Prayers, her fond Reproaches, Her tender Sighs, her Vows, her trickling Tears. Nay—if all these prove vain, fear her Despair, A Woman, an abandon'd Woman's Rage.

Bass. Were there more Dangers, yet I'll stand 'em all; My Honour bids me pay this parting Visit: My Heart shall have no Share in what I'll speak. Trust me this once, and be yourself a Witness, Bassino can controul unlawful Love.——

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Arm. My Lord, 'tis with Regret I see you go, May Heaven assist you in this dangerous Strife.

SCENE III. Aurelia's Chamber; she in an Undress with Florella.

SCENE III.

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