You do what is truly honourable, in
not believing that I am to be terrified by the threats of Eraste.
POL. They just now frightened me with his threats, but since then things
have changed greatly; you will be attacked by a more powerful enemy,
without being able to flee from him.
MASC. Is there no way of making it up?
VAL! I flee!--Heaven forbid! And who can this be?
POL. Ascanio.
VAL. Ascanio?
POL. Yes; you shall see him appear presently.
VAL. He, who has pledged his word to serve me!
POL. Yes, it is he who says he has a quarrel with you; he, who is
determined to decide the quarrel by single combat, to which he
challenges you.
MASC. He is a good fellow: he knows that generous minds do not endanger
other people's lives by their quarrels.
POL. He accuses you of deceit. His anger appears to me to have so just a
cause, that Albert and I have agreed you should give Ascanio
satisfaction for this affront, but publicly, and without any delay,
according to the formalities requisite in such a case.
VAL. What! father; and did Lucile obstinately...?
POL. Lucile is to marry Eraste, and blames you too; and the better to
prove your story to be false, is resolved to give her hand to Eraste
before your very face.
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