Thanks to Columbine's warning and appropriate gossip by bell and Pantalone the guest to the ball are all alert to the coming of a mysterious personage, that being the fairy queen. Isabella is sure to mention that such beings always leave suddenly at a cocks crow or the ringing of a bell or some other strange signal. And on that signal they leave behind a trinket such as a shoe or other article. The man who has this trinket will win her merely by finding the woman who the garment fis. All are facinated, andmost importantly Il Dottori and Il Capitano.
Columbine, as the fairy queen, makes her entrance and dancing begins. Il Dottori and il Capitano alternately struggle with Arliquin to dance with Isabella and with Trivelino to dance with Columbine. At last out comes Venus and rings the bell.
Columbine darts off, casting off the slipper behind her as she goes. Il Dottori and Il Capitano snatch for it but it is Trivelino who out wits both. Il Capitano draws his sword and Trivelino appeals to Arliquin for protection, a sword match ensues between Arliquin and Il Capitano as Trivelino and Il Dottore engage over the slipper.
At last Pantalone has had enough and angrily calls for the attention of his guests. Demanding of them the slipper he asks each of them regarding it. Shall he give it to his old friend, to the important captain, what of Trivelino who seems to have had possession of it.
While both Il Capitano and Il Dottore press thier claim Trivelino says he must defer his claim to Arliquin who is his chief, and Arliquin wants it not indicating through gesture that his sole desire is Isabella not the fairy queen.
Pantalone is impressed by the rogues, contrasted with the inconsistancies if Il Dottri and Il Capitano. Pantalone awards the slipper to Trivelino, whothen offers it to Columbine, for if it fits her not he has no use for it.
What then of Il Capitano, and Il Dottori. Ah, Columbine gives to them the slipper on a singlar condition. They must be consistant with this quest, as they where not consistant in seeking Isabella. Let them both take turns trying the slipper on maid for at least a year, and with that all go off.
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