GRACE. Faith, through a common calamity, he bought me, sir; and now he
will marry me to his wife's brother, this wise gentleman that you see;
or else I must pay value o' my land.
QUAR. 'Slid, is there no device of disparagement, or so? talk with
some crafty fellow, some picklock of the law: would I had studied a
year longer in the Inns of court, an't had been but in your case.
WINW. Ay, master Quarlous, are you proffering! [_Aside._
GRACE. You'd bring but little aid, sir.
WINW. I'll look to you, in faith, gamester. [_Aside._]--An unfortunate
foolish tribe you are fallen into, lady, I wonder you can endure them.
GRACE. Sir, they that cannot work their fetters off must wear them.
WINW. You see what care they have on you, to leave you thus.
GRACE. Faith, the same they have of themselves, sir. I cannot greatly
complain, if this were all the plea I had against them.
WINW. 'Tis true: but will you please to withdraw with us a little, and
make them think they have lost you. I hope our manners have been such
hitherto, and our language, as will give you no cause to doubt
yourself in our company.
GRACE. Sir, I will give myself no cause; I am so secure of mine own
manners, as I suspect not yours.
QUAR. Look where John Littlewit comes.
WINW. Away, I'll not be seen by him.
QUAR. No, you were not best, he'd tell his mother, the widow.
WINW. Heart! what do you mean?
QUAR. Cry you mercy, is the wind there? must not the widow be named?
[_Exeunt._
_Enter LITTLEWIT from URSULA'S booth, followed by MRS. LITTLEWIT._
LIT. Do you hear, Win, Win?
MRS. LIT. What say you, John?
LIT. While they are paying the reckoning, Win, I'll tell you a thing,
Win; we shall never see any sights in the Fair, Win, except you long
still, Win: good Win, sweet Win, long to see some hobby-horses, and
some drums, and rattles, and dogs, and fine devices, Win. The bull
with the five legs, Win; and the great hog. Now you have begun with
pig, you may long for any thing, Win, and so for my motion, Win.
MRS. LIT. But we shall not eat of the bull and the hog, John; how
shall I long then?
LIT. O yes, Win: you may long to see, as well as to taste, Win: how
did the pothecary's wife, Win, that longed to see the anatomy, Win? or
the lady, Win, that desired to spit in the great lawyer's mouth, after
an eloquent pleading? I assure you, they longed, Win; good Win, go in,
and long.
[_Exeunt Littlewit and Mrs. Littlewit._
TRASH. I think we are rid of our new customer, brother Leatherhead, we
shall hear no more of him.
LEATH. All the better; let's pack up all and begone, before he find
us.
TRASH. Stay a little, yonder comes a company; it may be we may take
some more money.
_Enter KNOCKEM and BUSY._
KNOCK. Sir, I will take your counsel, and cut my hair, and leave
vapours: I see that tobacco, and bottle-ale, and pig, and Whit, and
very Ursla herself, is all vanity.
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