Volume Iv Part 6 (1/2)
_Wit._ Madam, should I follow my inclinations, I should pay my Vows no where but there,--but I am inform'd Sir _Patient_ is a Man so positively resolv'd.--
L. _Fan._ That you should love his Wife. [Aside.
_Wit._ And I'll comply with that Resolve of his, and neither love nor marry _Isabella_, without his Permission; and I doubt not but I shall by my Respects to him gain his Consent,--to cuckold him.
[Aside.
Sir _Pat._ I profess ingenuously, a very discreet young Man.
_Wit._ But, Madam, when may I promise my self the satisfaction of coming again? For I'm impatient for the Sight and Enjoyment of the fair Person I love.
L. _Fan._ Sir, you may come at night, and something I will do by that time shall certainly give you that access you wish for.
_Wit._ May I depend upon that Happiness?
L. _Fan._ Oh, doubt not my power over Sir _Patient_.
Sir _Pat._ My Lady _Fancy_, you promise largely.
L. _Fan._ Sir _Patient_ here!
_Wit._ A Devil on him, wou'd I were well off: now must I dissemble, profess, and lye most confoundedly.
Sir _Pat._ Your Servant, Sir, your Servant.--My Lady _Fancy_, your Ladys.h.i.+p, is well entertain'd I see; have a care you make me not jealous, my Lady _Fancy_.
L. _Fan._ Indeed I have given you cause, Sir _Patient_, for I have been entertaining a Lover, and one you must admit of too.
Sir _Pat._ Say you so, my Lady _Fancy_?--Well, Sir, I am a Man of Reason, and if you shew me good causes why, can bid you welcome, for I do nothing without Reason and Precaution.
_Wit._ Sir, I have--
Sir _Pat._ I know what you wou'd say, Sir; few Words denoteth a Wise Head,--you wou'd say that you have an Ambition to be my Son-in-Law.
_Wit._ You guess most right, Sir.
Sir _Pat._ Nay, Sir, I'll warrant I'll read a Man as well as the best, I have studied it.
_Wit._ Now, Invention, help me or never.
Sir _Pat._ Your Name, I pray?
[Putting off his Hat gravely at every Word.
_Wit._ _Fainlove_, Sir.
Sir _Pat._ Good Mr. _Fainlove_, your Country?
_Wit._ _Yorks.h.i.+re_, Sir.
Sir _Pat._ What, not Mr. _Fainlove's_ Son of _Yorks.h.i.+re_, who was knighted in the good days of the late Lord Protector?
[Off his Hat.