[521] 12 () ret. G [522] 17 you to go 1716, W [523] 35 _Provedore_ 1716 provedore W provedoré G [524] 43 Usher 1716 usher W, G [525] 47 Sometime 1692, 1716, W [526] 55 EV.] _Meer._ 1716, f. [527] 59 is hee] he is W, G [528] 62, 65 () ret. G [529] 70 [_Exeunt Engine and Wittipol._ G ACT. IIJ. SCENE. V. MERE-CRAFT. FITZ-DOTTREL. PVG. Return’d ſo ſoone? FIT. Yes, here’s the ring: I ha’ ſeal’d. But there’s not ſo much gold in all the row, he ſaies-- Till’t come fro’ the Mint. ’Tis tane vp for the gameſters. MER. There’s a ſhop-ſhift! plague on ’hem. FIT. He do’s ſweare it. MER. He’ll ſweare, and forſweare too, it is his trade, 5 You ſhould not haue left him. FIT. S’lid, I can goe backe, And beat him, yet. MER. No, now let him alone. FIT. I was ſo earneſt, after the maine _Buſineſſe_, To haue this ring, gone. MER. True, and ’tis time. I’haue learned, Sir, ſin’ you went, her _Ladi-ſhip_ eats 10 With the _Lady Tail-buſh_, here, hard by. FIT. I’ the lane here? MER. Yes, if you’had a ſeruant, now of prefence, Well cloth’d, and of an aëry voluble tongue, Neither too bigge, or little for his mouth, That could deliuer your wiues complement; 15 To ſend along withall. FIT. I haue one Sir, A very handſome, gentleman-like-fellow, That I doe meane to make my _Dutcheſſe Vſher_-- I entertain’d him, but this morning, too: I’ll call him to you. The worſt of him, is his name! 20 MER. She’ll take no note of that, but of his meſſage. [139] _Hee ſhewes him his_ Pug. FIT. _Diuell!_ How like you him, Sir. Pace, go a little. Let’s ſee you moue. MER. He’ll ſerue, S^r, giue it him: And let him goe along with mee, I’ll helpe To preſent him, and it. FIT. Looke, you doe ſirah, 25 Diſcharge this well, as you expect your place. Do’you heare, goe on, come off with all your honours. _Giues him inſtructions._ I would faine ſee him, do it. MER. Truſt him, with it; FIT. Remember kiſſing of your hand, and anſwering With the _French_-time, in flexure of your body. 30 I could now ſo inſtruct him--and for his words-- MER. I’ll put them in his mouth. FIT. O, but I haue ’hem O’ the very _Academies_. MER. Sir, you’ll haue vſe for ’hem, Anon, your ſelfe, I warrant you: after dinner, When you are call’d. FIT. S’light, that’ll be iuſt _play_-time. 35 _He longs to ſee the_ play. It cannot be, I muſt not loſe the _play_! MER. Sir, but you muſt, if ſhe appoint to ſit. And, ſhee’s preſident.