Volume I Part 16 (1/2)

_Flor._ So, if I find him false, my whole Repose is gone. [Aside.

_Belv._ And but for a Vow I've made to a very fine Lady, this Goodness had subdu'd me.

_Fred._ Pox on't be kind, in pity to me be kind, for I am to thrive here but as you treat her Friend.

_h.e.l.l._ Tell me what did you in yonder House, and I'll unmasque.

_Will._ Yonder House-- oh-- I went to-- a-- to-- why, there's a Friend of mine lives there.

_h.e.l.l._ What a she, or a he Friend?

_Will._ A Man upon my Honour! a Man-- A She Friend! no, no, Madam, you have done my Business, I thank you.

_h.e.l.l._ And was't your Man Friend, that had more Darts in's Eyes than _Cupid_ carries in a whole Budget of Arrows?

_Will._ So--

_h.e.l.l._ Ah such a _Bona Roba_: to be in her Arms is lying in _Fresco_, all perfumed Air about me-- Was this your Man Friend too?

_Will._ So--

_h.e.l.l._ That gave you the He, and the She-- Gold, that begets young Pleasures.

_Will._ Well, well, Madam, then you see there are Ladies in the World, that will not be cruel-- there are, Madam, there are--

_h.e.l.l._ And there be Men too as fine, wild, inconstant Fellows as your self, there be, Captain, there be, if you go to that now-- therefore I'm resolv'd--

_Will._ Oh!

_h.e.l.l._ To see your Face no more--

_Will._ Oh!

_h.e.l.l._ Till to morrow.

_Will._ Egad you frighted me.

_h.e.l.l._ Nor then neither, unless you'l swear never to see that Lady more.

_Will._ See her!-- why! never to think of Womankind again?

_h.e.l.l._ Kneel, and swear. [Kneels, she gives him her hand.

_h.e.l.l._ I do, never to think-- to see-- to love-- nor lie with any but thy self.

_h.e.l.l._ Kiss the Book.

_Will._ Oh, most religiously. [Kisses her Hand.

_h.e.l.l._ Now what a wicked Creature am I, to d.a.m.n a proper Fellow.

_Call._ Madam, I'll stay no longer, 'tis e'en dark. [To _Flor._