and yet it might be done that way:      It is a challenge feign'd from Lodowick. ITHAMORE. Fear not; I will so set his heart a-fire, That he shall verily think it comes from him. BARABAS. I cannot choose but like thy readiness:      Yet be not rash, but do it cunningly. ITHAMORE. As I behave myself in this, employ me hereafter. BARABAS. Away, then!           [Exit ITHAMORE.]      So; now will I go in to Lodowick, And, like a cunning spirit, feign some lie, Till I have set 'em both at enmity.           [Exit.] 

  

       ACT III.     

           Enter BELLAMIRA. 91 BELLAMIRA. Since this town was besieg'd, my gain grows cold:      The time has been, that but for one bare night A hundred ducats have been freely given; But now against my will I must be chaste:      And yet I know my beauty doth not fail.      ]From Venice merchants, and from Padua Were wont to come rare-witted gentlemen, Scholars I mean, learned and liberal; And now, save Pilia-Borza, comes there none, And he is very seldom from my house; And here he comes. Enter PILIA-BORZA. PILIA-BORZA. Hold thee, wench, there's something for thee to spend.           [Shewing a bag of silver.]       BELLAMIRA. 'Tis silver; I disdain it. PILIA-BORZA. Ay, but the Jew has gold, And I will have it, or it shall go hard. BELLAMIRA. Tell me, how cam'st thou by this? PILIA-BORZA. Faith, walking the back-lanes, through the gardens, I chanced to cast mine eye up to the Jew's counting-house, where I saw some bags of money, and in the night I clambered up with my hooks; and, as I was taking my choice, I heard a rumbling in the house; so I took only this, and run my way.—But here's the Jew's man. BELLAMIRA. Hide the bag. Enter ITHAMORE. PILIA-BORZA. Look not towards him, let's away. Zoons, what a looking thou keepest! thou'lt betray's anon.           [Exeunt BELLAMIRA and PILIA-BORZA.]       ITHAMORE. O, the sweetest face that ever I beheld! I know she is a courtezan by her attire:  now would I give a hundred of the Jew's crowns that I had such a concubine. Well, I have deliver'd the challenge in such sort, As meet they will, and fighting die,—brave sport!           [Exit.]            Enter MATHIAS. MATHIAS. This is the place: 92 now Abigail shall see Whether Mathias holds her dear or no. Enter LODOWICK. What, dares the villain write in such base terms?           [Looking at a letter.]       LODOWICK. I did it; and revenge it, if thou dar'st!           [They fight.]         

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