FIT. Out you Rogue!
You moſt infernall counterfeit wretch! Auant!
Do you thinke to gull me with your _Æſops Fables_? 30
Here take him to you, I ha’ no part in him.
PVG. Sir.
FIT. Away, I do diſclaime, I will not heare you.
_And ſends him away._
MER. What ſaid he to you, Sir?
FIT. Like a lying raskall
Told me he was the _Diuel_.
MER. How! a good ieſt!
FIT. And that he would teach me, ſuch fine _diuels_ tricks 35
For our new reſolution.
EVE. O’ pox on him,
’Twas excellent wiſely done, Sir, not to truſt him.
Mere-craft _giues the instructions to him and the reſt_.
MER. Why, if he were the Diuel, we ſha’ not need him,
If you’ll be rul’d. Goe throw your ſelfe on a bed, Sir,
And faine you ill. Wee’ll not be ſeene wi’ you, 40
Till after, that you haue a fit: and all
Confirm’d within. Keepe you with the two _Ladies_
And perſwade them. I’ll to _Iuſtice Either-ſide_,
And poſſeſſe him with all. _Traines_ ſhall ſeeke out _Ingine_,
And they two fill the towne with’t, euery cable 45
Is to be veer’d. We muſt employ out all
Our _emiſſaries_ now; Sir, I will ſend you
_Bladders_ and _Bellowes_. Sir, be confident,
’Tis no hard thing t’out doe the _Deuill_ in:
A Boy o’ thirteene yeere old made him an _Aſſe_ 50
But t’toher day.
FIT. Well, I’ll beginne to practice;
And ſcape the imputation of being _Cuckold_,
By mine owne act.
MER. yo’ are right.
EVE. Come, you ha’ put
Your ſelfe to a ſimple coyle here, and your freinds, [164]
By dealing with new _Agents_, in new plots. 55
MER. No more o’ that, ſweet couſin.
EVE. What had you
To doe with this ſame _Wittipol_, for a _Lady_?
MER. Queſtion not that: ’tis done.
EVE. You had ſome ſtraine
’Boue E-_la_?
MER. I had indeed.
EVE. And, now, you crack for’t.
MER. Do not vpbraid me.
EVE. Come, you muſt be told on’t; 60
You are ſo couetous, ſtill, to embrace
More then you can, that you looſe all.
MER. ’Tis right.
What would you more, then Guilty? Now, your ſuccours.
[783] SD. om. G
[784] 5 _Ambler. Enter_ FITZDOTTREL. G
[785] 11 SN. om. G
[786] 12 private. [_Takes him aside._ G
[787] 28 loud] round 1716
[788] 32 SN.] [_Exit Sledge with Pug._ G
[789] 36 O’] O W O, G
[790] 37 SN. om. G
[791] 42 [_to Everill._ G
[792] 43 I will G
[793] 45 two] to 1641
[794] 46 imploy 1641
[795] 49 t’ ret. G
[796] 51 t’tother 1692 t’other 1716. f.
[797] 53 You’re 1716, W right. || [_Exit Fitz._ G
[798] 61 imbrace 1641
[799] 63 [_Exeunt._ G
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