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stir—don’t you see he is in a passion—and then he’s as brave as Judas 
Macaret.* Return, Don Haughty—my precious ;” and she flung her 
arms round his neck, while Monopadis seized him by the cloak to stop 
his departure. The bravos, not certain whether they ought, or ought 
not, to be in a passion, awaited quietly to see what Repolido intended, 
who, finding himself thus entreated by Cariharte and Monopadis, turned 
to them, saying, “ Friends should never vex friends, or mock at them 
when they saw that they did not understand the jest.’”—‘ There is here 
no friend,” replied Maniferro, “ who wishes to vex or jest at his friend ; 
and, as we are all friends, let us shake hands upon it.”—“ Gentlemen,” 
said Monopadis, “you speak as friends should ;’ and they all shook 
hands with each other. Esculante then took off one of her shoes, turned 
it, and touched % on the in-sole, in the manner and tone of a tam- 
bourine. Gamenciosa seized upon a palm broom, which lay near by 
accident, and, in scraping it along, contrived from it a sound, that, 
though harsh and rude, accorded perfectly with the shoe tambourine. 
Monopadis broke an earthen platter; and, from two morsels of it that 
he struck one against the other, there resulted a contre-point in unison 
with the shoe and the brush. The two novices were utterly astonished 
at the invention of the broom which they had never before seen; and 
Maniferro, observing their surprise, said to them, “ I see our concert 
amuses you. Never music was so promptly invented, executed so easily, 
or at a cheaper expense, since the world was a world: indeed, it is but 
a day or two ago, that I heard a scholar declare, that neither Morpheus, 
who drew his mistress from hell; nor Marion, who rode about the sea 
on a dolphin, just as if it was a kind mule; nor that other great musician, 
who built a city with a thousand gates, ever invented a sort of music so 
agreeable to hear, so quick to learn, so easy to play, and with so little 
of making ; and yet the inventor is a very young man of this city, I hear, 
who, however, is quite a Hector in music.”—* I can believe it,” said 
Bincon, ready to laugh outright ; “ but let us listen. It seems to me 
that Gamenciosa is going to sing, for she smiles.” Monopadis had 
begged the two young women to sing a seguidella. Esculante began 
first, and, in a sharp and cracked tone, gave the following verse :— 
«« Oh, take me to the Prado!’ 
Is all my new Montilla’s cry ; 
© Oh, take me to the Prado, 
Nor hide me thus from ev’ry eye 
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Gamenciosa then took it up, and sung— 
* Oh, buy me, buy me, buy me, 
A pair of amber ear-rings small ; 
Oh, try me, try me, try me, 
And I'll become you best of all.” 
Monopadis, hemming his voice as clear as he might, resumed the 
strain with allusive gallantry, and continued thus :— 
“ Two hearts that have been fighting, 
When once the silly quarrel ends, 
In the new peace delighting, 
Become the better friends.” 
_* Maccabeus. 
