SCENE I.--A Drawing-room.


[ENTER LORD TINSEL and the EARL OF ROCHDALE.]

Tin. Refuse a lord! A saucy lady this.
I scarce can credit it.

Roch. She'll change her mind.
My agent, Master Walter, is her guardian.

Tin. How can you keep that Hunchback in his office?
He mocks you.

Roch. He is useful. Never heed him.
My offer now do I present through him.
He has the title-deeds of my estates,
She'll listen to their wooing. I must have her.
Not that I love her, but that all allow
She's fairest of the fair.

Tin. Distinguished well!
'Twere most unseemly for a lord to love! -
Leave that to commoners! 'Tis vulgar--she's
Betrothed, you tell me, to Sir Thomas Clifford?

Roch. Yes.