_Myrt._ Never was taken in so odd a way in my life--pray lead me! Oh! I was talking here--(pray carry me)--to my cousin Cimberton's young lady. _Mrs. Seal._ [_Aside._] My cousin Cimberton's young lady! How zealous he is, even in his extremity, for the match! A right Cimberton. [CIMBERTON _and_ LUCINDA _lead him, as one in pain._ _Cimb._ Pox! Uncle, you will pull my ear off. _Luc._ Pray, uncle! you will squeeze me to death. _Mrs. Seal._ No matter, no matter--he knows not what he does.--Come, sir, shall I help you out? _Myrt._ By no means! I'll trouble nobody but my young cousins here. [_They lead him off._ _Phil._ But pray, madam, does your ladyship intend that Mr. Cimberton shall really marry my young mistress at last? I don't think he likes her. _Mrs. Seal._ That's not material! Men of his speculation are above desires--but be as it may. Now I have given old Sir Geoffry the trouble of coming up to sign and seal, with what countenance can I be off? _Phil._ As well as with twenty others, madam. It is the glory and honour of a great fortune to live in continual treaties, and still to break off: it looks great, madam. _Mrs. Seal._ True, Phillis--yet to return our blood again into the Cimbertons is an honour not to be rejected--But were not you saying that Sir John Bevil's creature, Humphry, has been with Mr. Sealand? _Phil._ Yes, madam; I overheard them agree that Mr. Sealand should go himself and visit this unknown lady that Mr. Bevil is so great with; and if he found nothing there to fright him, that Mr. Bevil should still marry my young mistress. _Mrs. Seal._ How! nay, then, he shall find she is my daughter as well as his. I'll follow him this instant, and take the whole family along with me. The disputed power of disposing of my own daughter shall be at an end this very night. I'll live no longer in anxiety for a little hussy that hurts my appearance wherever I carry her: and for whose sake I seem to be at all regarded, and that in the best of my days. _Phil._ Indeed, madam, if she were married, your ladyship might very well be taken for Mr. Sealand's daughter. _Mrs. Seal._ Nay, when the chit has not been with me, I have heard the men say as much. I'll no longer cut off the greatest pleasure of a woman's life (the shining in assemblies) by her forward anticipation of the respect that's due to her superior. She shall down to Cimberton-Hall--she shall--she shall. _Phil._ I hope, madam, I shall stay with your ladyship. _Mrs. Seal._ Thou shalt, Phillis, and I'll place thee then more about me--But order chairs immediately; I'll be gone this minute. [_Exeunt._ SCENE II.--_Charing Cross._ _Enter_ MR. SEALAND _and_ HUMPHRY. _Mr. Seal._ I am very glad, Mr. Humphry, that you agree with me that it is for our common good I should look thoroughly into this matter.