WIT. The _Iuſtice_ ſure will proue the merrier man! [168]
MAN. This is moſt ſtrange, Sir!
POV. Come not to confront
Authority with impudence: I tell you,
I doe deteſt it. Here comes the Kings _Conſtable_,
And with him a right worſhipfull _Commoner_;
My good friend, Maſter _Guilt-head_! I am glad
I can before ſuch witneſſes, profeſſe
My conſcience, and my deteſtation of it. 65
Horible! moſt vnaturall! Abominable!
EVE. You doe not tumble enough.
MER. Wallow, gnaſh:
_They whiſper him._
TAY. O, how he is vexed!
POV. ’Tis too manifeſt.
EVE. Giue him more ſoap to foame with, now lie ſtill.
_and giue him ſoape to act with._
MER. And act a little.
TAY. What do’s he now, S^r.
POV. Shew
The taking of _Tabacco_, with which the _Diuell_
Is ſo delighted.
FIT. _Hum!_
POV. And calls for _Hum_.
You takers of ſtrong _Waters_, and _Tabacco_,
Marke this.
FIT. _Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow_, &c.
POV. That’s _Starch_! the _Diuells_ Idoll of that colour. 75
He ratifies it, with clapping of his hands.
The proofes are pregnant.
GVI. How the _Diuel_ can act!
POV. He is the Maſter of _Players_! Master _Guilt-head_,
And _Poets_, too! you heard him talke in rime!
I had forgot to obſerue it to you, ere while! 80
TAY. See, he ſpits fire.
POV. O no, he plaies at _Figgum_,
The _Diuell_ is the Author of wicked _Figgum_--
_Sir_ Poule _interprets_ Figgum _to be a Iuglers game_.
MAN. Why ſpeake you not vnto him?
WIT. If I had
All innocence of man to be indanger’d,
And he could ſaue, or ruine it: I’ld not breath 85
A ſyllable in requeſt, to ſuch a foole,
He makes himſelfe.
FIT. _O they whiſper, whiſper, whiſper.
Wee ſhall haue more, of Diuells a ſcore,
To come to dinner, in mee the ſinner._
EYT. Alas, poore Gentleman!
POV. Put ’hem aſunder. 90
Keepe ’hem one from the other.
MAN. Are you phrenticke, Sir,
Or what graue dotage moues you, to take part
VVith so much villany? wee are not afraid
Either of law, or triall; let vs be
Examin’d what our ends were, what the meanes? 95
To worke by, and poſſibility of thoſe meanes.
Doe not conclude againſt vs, ere you heare vs.
POV. I will not heare you, yet I will conclude
Out of the circumſtances.
MAN. VVill you ſo, Sir?
POV. Yes, they are palpable:
MAN. Not as your folly: 100
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