FIT. Should be elſe-where truſted.
Yo’ are much about the truth. Sweet honoured _Ladies_,
_He enters himſelfe with the_ Ladies.
Let mee fall in wi’ you. I’ha’ my female wit,
As well as my male. And I doe know what ſutes 155
A _Lady_ of ſpirit, or a woman of faſhion!
WIT. And you would haue your wife ſuch.
FIT. Yes, _Madame_, aërie,
Light; not to plaine diſhoneſty, I meane:
But, ſomewhat o’ this ſide.
WIT. I take you, Sir.
H’has reaſon _Ladies_. I’ll not giue this ruſh 160
For any _Lady_, that cannot be honeſt
Within a thred.
TAY. Yes, _Madame_, and yet venter
As far for th’other, in her Fame--
WIT. As can be;
Coach it to _Pimlico_; daunce the _Saraband_; [151]
Heare, and talke bawdy; laugh as loud, as a larum; 165
Squeake, ſpring, do any thing.
EIT. In young company, _Madame_.
TAY. Or afore gallants. If they be braue, or _Lords_,
A woman is ingag’d.
FIT. I ſay ſo, _Ladies_,
It is ciuility to deny vs nothing.
PVG. You talke of a _Vniuerſity_! why, _Hell_ is 170
A Grammar-ſchoole to this!
_The_ Diuell _admires him_.
EIT. But then,
Shee muſt not loſe a looke on ſtuffes, or cloth, _Madame_.
TAY. Nor no courſe fellow.
WIT. She muſt be guided, _Madame_
By the clothes he weares, and company he is in;
Whom to ſalute, how farre--
FIT. I ha’ told her this. 175
And how that bawdry too, vpo’ the point,
Is (in it ſelfe) as ciuill a diſcourſe--
WIT. As any other affayre of fleſh, what euer.
FIT. But ſhee will ne’r be capable, ſhee is not
So much as comming, _Madame_; I know not how 180
She loſes all her opportunities
With hoping to be forc’d. I’haue entertain’d
_He ſhews his_ Pug.
A gentleman, a younger brother, here,
Whom I would faine breed vp, her _Eſcudero_,
Againſt ſome expectation’s that I haue, 185
And ſhe’ll not countenance him.
WIT. What’s his name?
FIT. _Diuel_, o’ _Darbi-ſhire_.
EIT. Bleſſe us from him!
TAY. _Diuell?_
Call him _De-uile_, ſweet _Madame_.
M^rs. FI. What you pleaſe, _Ladies_.
TAY. _De-uile’s_ a prettier name!
EIT. And ſounds, me thinks,
As it came in with the _Conquerour_--
MAN. Ouer ſmocks! 190
What things they are? That nature ſhould be at leaſure
Euer to make ’hem! my woing is at an end.
Manly _goes out with indignation_.
WIT. What can he do?
EIT. Let’s heare him.
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