_Bell. Hum, not immediatly in my Conscence, not heartily._[113]----This is playing I take it with Edge-Tools. To go to Heaven in jeast, is the way to go to Hell in earnest. In the Fourth _Act_, Lewdness is represented with that Gaity, as if the Crime was purely imaginary, and lay only in ignorance and preciseness. _Have you throughly consider'd (says Fondlewife) how detestable, how Heinous, and how crying a Sin the Sin of Adultery is? have you weighed I say? For it is a very weighty Sin: and, altho' it may lie----yet thy Husband must also bear his part; For thy iniquity will fall on his Head_.[114] I suppose this fit of Buffoonry and profaness, was to settle the Conscience of young Beginners, and to make the Terrors of Religion insignificant. _Bellmour_ desires _Lætitia to give him leave to swear by her Eyes and her Lips_: He kisses the Strumpet, and tells her, _Eternity was in that Moment_.[115] _Lætitia_ is horibly profane in her Apology to her Husband; but having the _Stage-Protection_ of Smut for her Guard, we must let her alone.[116] _Fondlewife_ stalks under the same shelter, and abuses a plain Text of Scripture to an impudent Meaning.[117] A little before, _Lætitia_ when her Intrigue with _Bellmour_ was almost discover'd, supports her self with this Consideration. _All my comfort lies in his impudence, and Heaven be prais'd, he has a Considerable Portion_.[118] This is the _Play-house_ Grace, and thus Lewdness is made a part of Devotion! Ther's another Instance still behind: 'Tis that of _Sharper_ to _Vain-Love_, and lies thus. _I have been a kind of God Father to you, yonder: I have promis'd and vow'd something in your Name, which I think you are bound to Perform_.[119] For Christians to droll upon their Baptism is somewhat extraordinary; But since the _Bible_ can't escape, 'tis the less wonder to make bold with the _Catechisme_.