Volume Ii Part 73 (1/2)

L. _Gal_. Marry you.

Sir _Char_. When?

L. _Gal_. Nay, that's too much--Hold, hold, I will to morrow--Now you are satisfy'd, you will withdraw?

_Enter Sir_ Anth. _and_ Closet.

Sir _Anth. Charles_, Joy, _Charles_, give you Joy, here's two substantial Witnesses.

_Clos_. I deny it, Sir; I heard no such thing.

Sir _Anth_. What, what, Mrs. Closet, a Waiting-woman of Honour, and flinch from her Evidence! Gad, I'll d.a.m.n thy Soul if thou dar'st swear what thou say'st.

L. _Gal_. How, upon the Catch, Sir! am I betray'd?

Base and unkind, is this your humble Love?

Is all your whining come to this, false Man?

By Heaven, I'll be reveng'd.

[_She goes out in a Rage with_ Closet.

Sir _Char_. Nay, Gad, you're caught, struggle and flounder as you please, Sweetheart, you'll but intangle more; let me alone to tickle your Gills, i'faith. [_Looking after her_.--Uncle, get ye home about your Business; I hope you'll give me the good morrow, as becomes me--I say no more, a Word to the Wise--

Sir _Anth_. By George, thou'rt a brave Fellow; why, I did not think it had been in thee, Man. Well, adieu; I'll give thee such a good morrow, _Charles_--the Devil's in him!--'Bye, Charles--a plaguy Rogue!--'night, Boy--a divine Youth!

[_Going and returning, as not able to leave him. Exit_.

Sir _Char_. Gad, I'll not leave her now, till she is mine; Then keep her so by constant Consummation.

Let Man o' G.o.d do his, I'll do my Part, In spite of all her Fickleness and Art; There's one sure way to fix a Widow's Heart.

[_Exit_.

ACT V.

SCENE I. _Sir_ Timothy's _House_.

_Enter_ Dresswell, Foppington, Laboir, _and five or six more disguised with Wizards and dark Lanthorns_.

_Fop_. Not yet! a plague of this d.a.m.n'd Widow: The Devil ow'd him an unlucky Cast, and has thrown it him to night.

_Enter_ Wild, _in Rapture and Joy_.

--Hah, dear _Tom_, art thou come?

_Wild_. I saw how at her length she lay! I saw her rising Bosom bare!

_Fop_. A Pox of her rising Bosom! My dear, let's dress and about our Business.

_Wild_. Her loose thin Robes, through which appear A Shape design'd for Love and Play!