surprize at what I have related, and may be, are doubtful of the Truth;
but I thought you had been better acquainted with your Cousin Leonora's
Voice, than to have forgot it so soon: Yet in Complaisance to your ill
Memory, I will put you past doubt, by shewing you my Face; with that she
pulled off her Mask, and discovered to Hippolito (now more amaz'd than
ever) the most Angelick Face that he had ever beheld. He was just about
to have made her some answer, when, clapping on her Mask again without
giving him time, she happily for him pursu'd her Discourse. (For 'tis
odds but he had made some discovery of himself in the surprize he was
in.) Having taken him familiarly by the Hand, now she had made her self
known to him, 'Cousin Lorenzo (added she) you may perhaps have taken it
unkindly, that, during the time of your indisposition by reason of your
Wounds, I have not been to visit you; I do assure you it was not for want
of any Inclination I had both to see and serve you to my power; but you
are well acquainted with the Severity of my Father, whom you know how
lately you have disobliged. I am mighty glad that I have met with you
here, where I have had an Opportunity to tell you what so much concerns
your Safety, which I am afraid you will not find in Florence; considering
the great Power Don Fabritio and his Father, the Marquess of Viterbo,
have in this City. I have another thing to inform you of, That whereas
Don Fabio had interested himself in your Cause, in Opposition to the
Marquess of Viterbo, by reason of the long Animosity between them, all
hopes of his Countenance and Assistance are defeated: For there has been
a Proposal of Reconciliation made to both Houses, and it is said it will
be confirm'd (as most such ancient Quarrels are at last) by the Marriage
of Juliana the Marquess's Daughter, with Aurelian, Son to Don Fabio: to
which effect the old Gentleman sent 'tother Day to Siena, where Aurelian
has been Educated, to hasten his coming to Town; but the Messenger
returning this Morning, brought word, That the same day he arriv'd at
Siena, Aurelian had set out for Florence, in Company with a young Spanish