FRI. Our faith is not confirm'd by oratory. If man, he cannot falsify his trust In offices of love; we leave our own For your enjoyment; were there piety In making love the anvil of your treason? No, no; we shall not entertain a thought, That may suggest suspicion, nor retain In our late-widow'd breasts a crime so foul As jealousy. Let our cornutos harbour That marrow-eating fury. Dear Florello, Hold my exchanged love complete in thee! CAV. Hold same opinion of thy Caveare, My best Caranto. JUL. Treasure like esteem In thy Julippe's choice, brave Palisado. JOC. In Joculette, active Salibrand. MED. Thy sprightliest revels, may they be reserv'd For thy endearèd Medlar, my Morisco. TIN. So may thy hopes be crownèd in thy Tinder, My valiant Tilly; and rest thus resolv'd: That th' tender tinder of my tried affection Shall ne'er obscure its lustre, if neglect Extinguish not that heat. TIL. May th' frigid zone Sooner contract my sinews! MOR. And love's grove Become an hermit's cell! SAL. And our revels A sullen stoic dream. PAL. And this exchange A period to our joys. CAR. And our protests Affrighting shadows. FLO. Or (what's worst of all) May those contents, which you expect from us, Discover our defects, and make you wish Your nuptial beds untouch'd. ALL. May all these fall, And crush us with their grandeur. LADIES. Be it so, And if our levity disvalue vows, Or what may most oblige us: may like censure Impeach our perish'd honours. [_They retire._ 1ST BOY. So: the match Is clapp'd already up. They need no witness. 2D BOY. Trust me, they couple handsomely, as if they had been married after th' new fashion. 1ST BOY. These need no dispensation. Fancy can act it without more ado. A mad match soon shuffled up! 2D BOY. But what shuffling would there be, if any of these wanton gossips should cry out before their time? 1ST BOY. That cry, my dainty wag, would be soon stifled. There be many ways, as I have heard my old grannam say (who had been in her youth a Paracelsian doctor's leman), to impregnate a birth, and, by secret applications o' possems[122] and cordials, not only to facilitate, but expedite, their production. 2D BOY. And what of all this? 1ST BOY. Why then, Tim, the only safe way for these gamesome macquerellas[123] is to antedate their conception before their separation. This has been an approved receipt; and, upon a long consult, found so, and returned authentic. Joy or grief produce wondrous effects in humorous[124] ladies. 2D BOY. Thou art a cunning, sifting ningle for all rogueries. SCENE IV. _Enter again the Ladies with their Platonic Confidants._