+Blan.+ I should have thought you strangely chang'd in humour, Should you have gone away so uncuriously. Francisca, ho! [_She knocks._
+Fran.+ Prythee, tell Silvia I would speak with her. [_Exit +Francisca+._ Well, clear your eyes, and say I have no skill, If she appears not t' ye exceeding handsome.
_Enter +Francisca+ with +Elvira+. +Don Julio+ salutes her._
+Don J.+ Welcome, fair maid, into this family, Where, whilst you take a servant's name upon you, To do my sister honour, you must allow Its master to be yours, and that by strongest ties, Knowing who plac'd you here, and having eyes.
+Elv.+ I wish my service, sir, to her and you May merit such a happy introduction.
+Don J.+ Farewell, sister, till anon: accompanied As now you are, I think you'll miss me little. [_Exit +Julio+._
+Blan.+ I must confess, I ne'er could better spare you Than at this time, but not for any reason That you, I hope, can guess at. Francisca, you and Silvia may retire, [_Exeunt +Elvira+ and +Francisca+._ And entertain yourselves: I'll to my closet, And try to rest, or (rather) to vent freely My restless thoughts. O, the self-torturing part [_Aside._ To force complaisance from a jealous heart! [_Exit._
[5] The errors Dodsley committed, and Reed allowed to remain, in the course of this play, were very numerous: it has been thought worth while to point out only a few of them in the notes.--_Collier._
[6] The substitution of _my_ for _her_, in opposition to the authority of the old copy, till now made this passage unintelligible.--_Collier._
"Away with thy _formalities_, dull creature!"--
which destroys all the spirit of the exclamation.--_Collier._
[8] The old copy inserts in the margin opposite Elvira the words _by the name of Silvia_ merely to show more distinctly that Elvira was to pass by that name, which is inserted before what she says.--_Collier._
[9] The heat of the day, from noon forwards. So called from Hora Sexta, noonday, a time when the Spanish ladies retire to sleep.
[10] It is singular that in the old copy the author should here have inserted the Spanish verb _regalar_ instead of the English one.--_Collier._
_Scene changes to the room in the inn. Enter +Don Julio+ and +Don Fernando+._
+Don J.+ Albricias,[11] friend, for the good news I bring you: All has fallen out as well as we could wish. As to Elvira's settling with my sister, So lucky a success in our first aims Concerning her, I trust, does bode good fortune Beyond our hopes; yet, in the farther progress Of this affair----