Volpone; Or, The Fox (Act 5 Scene 5.3)

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.]