avenged! Hyp. And have they with them a pale, beautiful girl, Hyp. What news is this, that makes Called Preciosa ? Padre C. Ay, a pretty girl. Padre C. Then, pray you, come SCENE IV.A post-house on the road to Segovia, not far from the village of Guadarrama. Enter CHISPA cracking a whip, and singing the ca chucha. Chispa. Halloo! Don Fulano! Let us have horses, and quickly. Alas, poor Chispa! what a dog's life dost thou lead! I thought, when I left my old master Victorian, the student, to serve my new master Don Carlos, the gentleman, that I, too, should lead the life of a gentleman; should go to bed early, and get up late. For when the abbot plays cards, what can you expect of the friars? But, in running away from the thunder, I have run into the lightning. Here I am in hot chase after my master and his Gypsy girl. And a good beginning of the week it evil eye? with you? Don C. Fear not. We will pass the night at the village. Have you a stag's horn Chispa. And sleep like the Squires of Hernan Daza, nine under one blanket. Don C. I hope we may find the Preciosa among them. Chispa. Among the Squires? Don C. No; among the Gypsies, blockhead! Chispa. I hope we may; for we are giving ourselves trouble enough on her account. Don't you think so? However, there is no catching trout without wetting one's trousers. Yonder come the horses. [Exeunt. Cruz. Keep your lanterns open, and, if you see a goblin or a papagayo, take to your trampers. Vineyards and Dancing John is the word. Am I comprehended? Gypsies. Ay! ay! Cruz. Away, then! (Exeunt severally. CRUZADO walks up the stage, and disappears among the trees. Enter PRECIOSA.) Prec. How strangely gleams through the gigantic trees, The red light of the forge! Wild, beckoning shadows Stalk through the forest, ever and |