Volume Iv Part 30 (2/2)

Sir _Pat._ My Wife's, my Heir, my sole Executrix.

L. _Fan._ Hah, is he in's Senses? [Aside to _Wit._ Oh my dear Love, my Life, my Joy, my All, [Crys.

Oh, let me go; I will not live without him.

[Seems to faint in _Wittmore's_ Arms. All run about her.

Sir _Pat._ Do ye hear that, Sirrah?

_Lean._ Have yet a little Patience, die away,--very well--Oh, he's gone,--quite gone.

[L. _Fan._ swoons.

L. _Kno._ Look to my Lady there, [Swoons again.

--Sure she can but counterfeit. [Aside. [They all go about her.

Sir _Pat._ Hah, my Lady dying!

_Lean._ Sir, I beseech you wait the event. Death! the cunning Devil will dissemble too long and spoil all,--here--carry the dead Corps of my dearest Uncle to his Chamber. Nurse, to your Care I commit him now.

[Exeunt with Sir _Pat._ in a Chair.

[All follow but _Wittmore_; who going the other way, meets Sir _Credulous_ and _Lodwick_, as before.

_Wit._ _Lodwick!_ the strangest unexpected News, Sir _Patient's_ dead!

Sir _Cred._ How, dead! we have play'd the Physicians to good purpose, i'faith, and kill'd the Man before we administer'd our Physick.

_Wit._ Egad, I fear so indeed.

_Lod._ Dead!

_Wit._ As a Herring, and 'twill be dangerous to keep these habits longer.

Sir _Cred._ Dangerous! Zoz, Man, we shall all be hang'd, why, our very Bill dispatch'd him, and our Hands are to't,--Oh, I'll confess all.-- [Offers to go.

_Lod._ Death, Sir, I'll cut your Throat if you stir.

Sir _Cred._ Wou'd you have me hang'd for Company, Gentlemen? Oh, where shall I hide my self, or how come at my Clothes?

_Lod._ We have no time for that; go get you into your Basket again, and lie snug, till I have convey'd you safe away,--or I'll abandon you.-- [Aside to him.

'Tis not necessary he shou'd be seen yet, he may spoil _Leander's_ Plot.

[Aside.

Sir _Cred._ Oh, thank ye, dear _Lodwick_,--let me escape this bout, and if ever the Fool turn Physician again, may he be choak'd with his own _Tetrachymagogon_.

_Wit._ Go, haste and undress you, whilst I'll to _Lucia_.

[Exeunt _Lod._ and Sir _Cred._

As _Wittmore_ is going out at one Door, enter Sir _Patient_ and _Leander_ at the other Door.

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