_Bon._ No, no, my Love; I found it as it lay at Random in your Chamber, and fearing it might be forgot, or lost, have laid it by; 'Tis safe my Love. _Ara._ Indeed I'me very glad you've found it, but yet---- [sighs. _Bon._ Yet, What my Dear? from whence proceeds that sigh? _Ara._ Alas, I know not! Some busie Genius Whispers to my Soul, The loss of this upon my Wedding Day Portend's a greater e're the Day be past. _Bon._ Banish such Fears, let's in and see our Friends. _Ara._ Indeed they all expect you; come I'll lead the way. _Bon._ I'll go with you. _Barn-Elms_ you say? [_Aside to_ Friendly. _Fri._ Yes that's the place, at Seven precisely; _Bon._ I'll meet you on the _Exchange_, and go together; If you are there before me, Take a turn or two. [_Exit_ Bonvile, _and_ Arabella. _Fri._ Oh my Dear _Bonvile_! Art thou then the Man? The only, only Man that I can call Friend, And only Friend that I am bound to Kill? A Friend, that for my sake wou'd stake his Life, Leave a Chast Bride and untouch'd Nuptial Bed For me base Man, nay worse than Savage Beast: The generous Lyon, never kills his kind They say, altho provoked to utmost rage; Yet I vile Monster, more ungrateful Man, Thus unprovoked, must kill my Brother Creature, And which is worse, my Dear and only Friend! All for the pleasure of a Foolish Woman. _O cruel Woman thus to Command A Task so hard, Yet what I can't withstand! Oh! thou rare Copy of the Original, By which free Man at first received his fall; For she not only wou'd her self undo, And all her Sex, but Damn all Mankind too._ [_Exit._ _The End of the First Act._ ACT the Second. SCENE the First. _The Fields._ _Enter_ Summerfield _solus._