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Actus tertij Scaena prima.
- Sanazarro.
- Servant.
Sanaz.
LEave the horses with my Groomes; but be you carefull
With your best diligence, and speed to finde out
The Prince, and humbly in my name entreat him
I may exchange some private conference with him
Before the great Duke know of my arrivall.
Servant.
I hast my Lord.
Sanazarro.
Here I'll attend his comming,
And see you keepe your selfe as much as may be
Conceal'd from all men else.
Servant.
To serve your Lordship
I wish I were invisible.
Exit servant.
Sanazarro.
I am driven
Into a desperate streight, and cannot steere
A middle course; and of the two extreames
Which I must make election of, I know not
Which is more full of horror. Never servant
Stood more ingag'd to a magnificent Master
Then I to Cozimo. And all those honors
And glories by his Grace conferr'd upon me,
Or by my prosperous services deserv'd,
If now I should deceive his trust, and make
A shipwrack of my loyalty, are ruin'd.
And on the other side, if I discover
Lidias divine perfections, all my hopes
In her are sunke, never to be boy'd up:
For 'tis impossible, but assoone as seene
She must with adoration be su'd to.
A Hermit at his beades, but looking on her,
Or the cold Cinique, whom Corinthian Lais,
Not mov'd with her lusts blandishments, call'd a stone,
At this object would take fire. Nor is the Duke
Such an Hippolitus, but that this Phaedra
But seene, must force him to forsake the Groves
And Dians Huntmanship, proud to serve under