SCENE XX.


VALENTINE, ANGELICA, JENNY.

ANG. Well, have you been there?--Come hither.

JENNY. Yes, madam; Sir Sampson will wait upon you presently.
[Aside to ANGELICA.]

VAL. You are not leaving me in this uncertainty?

ANG. Would anything but a madman complain of uncertainty?
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an
insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers
the folly of the chase. Never let us know one another better, for
the pleasure of a masquerade is done when we come to show our faces;
but I'll tell you two things before I leave you: I am not the fool
you take me for; and you are mad and don't know it.


SCENE XXI.


VALENTINE, JEREMY.

VAL. From a riddle you can expect nothing but a riddle. There's my
instruction and the moral of my lesson.

JERE. What, is the lady gone again, sir? I hope you understood one