WILD. They saluted her; and Mistress Pleasant swore you might see the country simplicity in her face. PAR. A pox upon her, crafty gipsy! CAPT. Why, art not thou glad to see she can be honest when she will? PAR. I'll show you all a trick for her within these few days, or I'll miss my aim. JOLLY. Come, let's go. [_They all offer to go._ CAPT. I have a mind to stay till Wanton comes. WILD. Stay a little, then, for 'twill not be long ere they be abed. CAPT. I hear Wanton's voice. _Enter_ WANTON. WILD. Are they abed? WAN. Yes, and have so admired you and Master Careless, and abused the lovers! Well, gentlemen, you are the wits of the time; but if I might counsel--well, they might lie alone this night; but it should go hard if I lay not with one of them within a month. CARE. Were they so taken with their lodging? WAN. All that can be said, they said: you are the friendliest men, the readiest men, the handsomest men; men that had wit, and could tell when to be civil, and when to be wild; and Mistress What's-her-name, the younger, asked why Master Wild did not go a-wooing to some rich heir; upon her conscience, she said, you would speed. CARE. Well, well, there's a time for all things: come, let's go. [_They offer to depart._ WILD. Take a light. Good night, Wanton. CAPT. D'ye hear, d'ye hear? let me speak with you. [_They all come back again._ WILD. What's the business? CAPT. I cannot get hence this night: but your good angels hang at your heels, and if I can prevail, you shall stay. WILD. What to do? CAPT. What to do? why I'll be hanged, if all this company do not guess. JOLLY. Prythee, what should we stay for? CAPT. For the widow and her niece. Are they worth the watching for a' night? WILD. Yes, certainly. CAPT. Then take my counsel, and let me give it out y' are married. You have new clothes come home this morning, and there's that you spoke of I'll fetch from the tailor's; and here's a parson shall rather give them his living than stay for a licence; the fiddlers, too, are ready to salute 'em. CARE. But if they refuse? JOLLY. Which, upon my conscience, they will. CAPT. As you hope, else you are laughed at for missing the widow. Ned, follow my counsel; appear at her chamber-window in thy shirt, and salute all that passes by. Let me alone to give it out, and invite company, and provide dinner; then, when the business is known, and I have presented all your friends at court with ribands, she must consent, or her honour is lost, if you have but the grace to swear it, and keep your own counsel. CARE. By this hand, he has reason, and I'll undertake the widow. WILD. It will incense them, and precipitate the business, which is in a fair way now; and if they have wit, they must hate us for such a treachery. CAPT. If they have wit, they will love you: beside, if it come to that, we two will swear we saw you married, and the parson shall be sworn he did it. Priest, will you not swear?