PLEA. Well, this shall be a warning to me. I say nothing, but if ever I lie from home again---- WILD. I'll lie with you. PLEA. 'Tis well. I daresay we are the first women, if this take, that ever were stolen against their wills. WILD. I'll go call the gentlemen. [_Exit_ WILD. WID. I that have refused a fellow that loved me these seven years, and would have put off his hat, and thanked me to come to bed, to be beaten with watchmen's staves into another's!--for, by this good light, for aught that I perceive, there's no keeping these out at night. PLEA. And unless we consent to be their wives to-day, master justice will make us their whores at night. O, O, what would not I give to come off? not that I mislike them, but I hate they should get us thus. _Enter_ WILD, JOLLY, CAPTAIN, CARELESS, PARSON, WANTON, _with rosemary in their hands, and points in their hats_. CARE. Follow. Will not you two swear we were married last night? JOLLY _and_ CAPT. Yes, by this light, will we. WILD. Will you not swear you married us? PAR. Yea, verily. CARE. And come hither, pretty one: will not you swear you left us all abed last night, and pleased? WAN. Yes, forsooth; I'll swear anything your worship shall appoint me. WID. But, gentleman, have you no shame, no conscience? Will you swear false for sport? JOLLY. By this light, I'll swear, if it be but to vex you: remember you refused me. That [_Aside_] is contrary to covenants, though, with my brace of lovers: what will they do with their coachman's plot? But 'tis no matter, I have my ends; and, so they are cosened, I care not who does it. CAPT. And faith, madam, I have sworn many times false to no purpose; and I should take it ill, if it were mine own case, to have a friend refuse me an oath upon such an occasion. PLEA. And are you all of one mind? PAR. Verily, we will all swear. PLEA. Will you verily? What shall we do, aunt? [PLEASANT _laughs_. WID. Do you laugh? by this light, I am heartily angry. PLEA. Why, as I live, let's marry them, aunt, and be revenged. WID. Marry! Where's the parson? CAPT. Here, here, master parson, come and do your office. PLEA. That fellow! no, by my troth, let's be honestly joined, for luck's sake: we know not how soon we may part. WILD. What shall we do for a parson? Captain, you must run and fetch one. CAPT. Yes, yes: but, methinks, this might serve turn: by this hand, he's a Marshall and a Case,[275] by sire and dam; pray, try him: by this light, he comes of the best preaching-kind in Essex. WID. Not I, as I live; that were a blessing in the devil's name. PAR. A pox on your wedding! give me my wife, and let me be gone. CAPT. Nay, nay, no choler, parson. The ladies do not like the colour of your beard![276] PAR. No, no, fetch another, and let them escape with that trick, then they'll jeer your beards blue, i' faith.