A ROOM IN VOLPONE'S HOUSE.
ENTER MOSCA IN THE HABIT OF A CLARISSIMO;
AND VOLPONE IN THAT OF A COMMANDADORE.
VOLP
Am I then like him?
MOS
O, sir, you are he;
No man can sever you.
VOLP
Good.
MOS
But what am I?
VOLP
'Fore heaven, a brave clarissimo, thou becom'st it!
Pity thou wert not born one.
MOS
[ASIDE.]: If I hold
My made one, 'twill be well.
VOLP
I'll go and see
What news first at the court.
[EXIT.]
MOS
Do so. My Fox
Is out of his hole, and ere he shall re-enter,
I'll make him languish in his borrow'd case,
Except he come to composition with me.—
Androgyno, Castrone, Nano!
[ENTER ANDROGYNO, CASTRONE AND NANO.]
ALL
Here.
MOS
Go, recreate yourselves abroad; go sport.—
[EXEUNT.]
So, now I have the keys, and am possest.
Since he will needs be dead afore his time,
I'll bury him, or gain by him: I am his heir,
And so will keep me, till he share at least.
To cozen him of all, were but a cheat
Well placed; no man would construe it a sin:
Let his sport pay for it, this is call'd the Fox-trap.
[EXIT.]