SCENE II.--A Garden with two Arbours.


[Enter MASTER HEARTWELL and MASTER WALTER meeting.]

Heart. Good Master Walter, welcome back again!

Wal. I'm glad to see you, Master Heartwell!

Heart. How,
I pray you, sped the mighty business which
So sudden called you hence?

Wal. Weighty, indeed!
What thou wouldst ne'er expect--wilt scarce believe!
Long-hidden wrong, wondrously come to light,
And great right done! But more of this anon.
Now of my ward discourse! Likes she the town?
How does she? Is she well? Canst match me her
Among your city maids?

Heart. Nor court ones neither!
She far outstrips them all!

Wal. I knew she would.
What else could follow in a maid so bred?
A pure mind, Master Heartwell!--not a taint
From intercourse with the distempered town;
With which all contact was walled out, until,