_Fisc._ Came you from the port, gentlemen?

_Col._ We did; and saw arrive, our honest, and our gallant countryman,
brave captain Gabriel Towerson.

_Beam._ Sent to these parts from our employers of the East India
company in England, as general of the voyage.

_Fisc._ Is the brave Towerson returned?

_Col._ The same, sir.

_Har._ He shall be nobly welcome. He has already spent twelve years
upon, or near, these rich Molucca isles, and home returned with honour
and great wealth.

_Fisc._ The devil give him joy of both, or I will for him. [_Aside._

_Beam._ He's my particular friend; I lived with him, both at Tencrate,
Tydore, and at Seran.

_Van Her._ Did he not leave a mistress in these parts, a native of
this island of Amboyna?

_Col._ He did; I think they call her Isabinda, who received baptism
for his sake, before he hence departed.

_Har._ 'Tis much against the will of all her friends, she loves your
countryman, but they are not disposers of her person; she's beauteous,
rich, and young, and Towerson well deserves her.