“we shall advise this wronged maid
to stead up your appointment, go in your place. If
the encounter acknowledge itself hereafter, it may
compel him to her recompense; and here, by this, is
your brother saved, your honor untainted, the poor
Mariana advantaged, and the corrupt deputy
scaled. The maid will I frame and make fit for his
attempt. If you think well to carry this as you may,
the doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit
from reproof. What think you of it? ”
“If he be like your brother, for his sake
Is he pardoned; and, for your lovely sake,
Give me your hand and say you will be mine.
He is my brother too. But fitter time for that. ”
“O, death’s a great disguiser, and you
may add to it. Shave the head, and tie the beard, and
say it was the desire of the penitent to be so bared
before his death. You know the course is common.”