Let us now pass onto _Worthy_, the _Relapsers_ fine Gentleman. This Spark sets up for Sense, and Address, and is to have nothing of Affectation or Conscience to spoil his Character. However to say no more of him, he grows Foppish in the last _Scene_, and courts _Amanda_ in Fustian, and Pedantry. First, He gives his Periods a turn of Versification, and talks _Prose_ to her in _Meeter_. Now this is just as agreeable as it would be to _Ride_ with one Leg, and _Walk_ with the other. But let him speak for himself. His first business is to bring _Amanda_ to an Aversion for her Husband; And therefore he perswades her to _Rouse up that Spirit Women ought to bear; and slight your God if he neglects his Angel_.[427] He goes on with his Orisons. _With Arms of Ice receive his Cold Embraces and keep your Fire for those that come in Flames._ Fire and Flames, is Mettal upon Mettal; 'Tis false Heraldry. _Extend the Arms of Mercy to his Aid. His zeal may give him Title to your Pity, altho' his Merit cannot claim your Love._[428] Here you have _Arms_ brought in again by Head and shoulders. I suppose the design was to keep up the Situation of the _Allegory_. But the latter part of the Speech is very Pithy. He would have her resign her Vertue out of Civility, and abuse her Husband on Principles of good Nature. _Worthy_ pursues his point, and Rises in his Address. He falls into a Fit of Dissection, and hopes to gain his Mistress by Cutting his Throat. He is for _Ripping up his Faithful Breast_, to prove the Reality of his Passion. Now when a Man Courts with his Heart in his Hand, it must be great Cruelty to refuse him! No Butcher could have Thought of a more moving Expedient! However, _Amanda_ continues obstinate, and is not in the usual Humour of the _Stage_. Upon this, like a well bred Lover he seizes her by Force, and threatens to Kill her. _Nay struggle not for all's in vain, or Death, or Victory, I am determin'd._[429] In this rencounter the Lady proves too nimble, and slips through his Fingers. Upon this disappointment, he cries, _there's Divinity about her, and she has dispenc'd some Portion on't to me_. His Passion is Metamorphos'd in the Turn of a hand: He is refin'd into a _Platonick_ Admirer, and goes off as like a _Town Spark_ as you would wish. And so much for the _Poets_ fine Gentleman. I should now examine the _Relapser's Thoughts and Expressions_, which are two other Things of Consideration in a _Play_. The _Thoughts_ or _Sentiments are the Expressions of the Manners, as Words are of the Thoughts_.[430] But the view of the _Characters_ has in some measure prevented this Enquiry. Leaving this Argument therefore, I shall consider his _Play_ with respect to the _Three Unities_ of Time, Place, and Action. And here the _Reader_ may please to take notice, that the Design of these Rules, is to conceal the Fiction of the _Stage_, to make the _Play_ appear Natural, and to give it an Air of Reality, and _Conversation_.