FIT. Out of my ſight. If thy name were not _Diuell_,
Thou ſhouldſt not ſtay a minute with me. In,
Goe, yet ſtay: yet goe too. I am reſolu’d. 30
What I will doe: and you ſhall know’t afore-hand.
Soone as the Gentleman is gone, doe you heare?
I’ll helpe your liſping. Wife, ſuch a man, wife!
Diuell _goes out_.
He has ſuch plots! He will make mee a _Duke_!
No leſſe, by heauen! ſix Mares, to your coach, wife! 35
That’s your proportion! And your coach-man bald!
Becauſe he ſhall be bare, inough. Doe not you laugh,
We are looking for a place, and all, i’ the map
What to be of. Haue faith, be not an Infidell.
You know, I am not eaſie to be gull’d. 40
I ſweare, when I haue my _millions_, elſe. I’ll make
Another _Dutcheſſe_: if you ha’ not faith.
M^rs. FI. You’ll ha’ too much, I feare, in theſe falſe ſpirits.
FIT. Spirits? O, no such thing! wife! wit, mere wit!
This man defies the _Diuell_, and all his works! 45
He dos’t by _Ingine_, and deuiſes, hee!
He has his winged ploughes, that goe with ſailes,
Will plough you forty acres, at once! and mills.
Will ſpout you water, ten miles off! All _Crowland_
Is ours, wife; and the fens, from vs, in _Norfolke_, 50
To the vtmoſt bound of _Lincoln-ſhire_! we haue view’d it,
And meaſur’d it within all; by the ſcale!
The richeſt tract of land, Loue, i’ the kingdome!
There will be made ſeuenteene, or eighteene _millions_;
Or more, as’t may be handled! wherefore, thinke, 55
Sweet heart, if th’ haſt a fancy to one place,
More then another, to be _Dutcheſſe_ of;
Now, name it: I will ha’t what ere it coſt,
(If’t will be had for money) either here, 59
Or’n _France_, or _Italy_.
M^rs. FI. You ha’ ſtrange phantaſies!
[342] SD. om. _Enter_ FITZDOTTREL. G
[343] 1 ’s] is G
[344] 2 set] see W
[345] 7 upon G§
[346] 10, 11 Whether ... direct.] All in line 10. 1692, 1716
[347] 11 SN.] [_Exit. Re-enter_ FITZDOTTREL _with a cudgel_. G
[348] 18 mistress! [_Beats Pug._ G
[349] 20 SN.] [_Strikes him again._ G
[350] 22, 23 yet ... last] euclosed by () W, G
[351] 23 o’ ret. G
[352] 25 where] were 1716, W Were G
[353] 24 SN.] [_Beats him again._] G
[354] 33 SN.] [_Exit Pug._] G
[355] 46 _Engine_ 1716 Engine W engine G
[356] 51 bounds 1692, f. || of] in G
[357] 56 th’] thou G
[358] 58 have ’t G
[359] 60 Or’n] Or’in 1692 Or in 1716, f.
ACT. II. SCENE. IV.
MERE-CRAFT. FITZ-DOTTRELL.
INGINE.
Where are you, Sir?
FIT. I ſee thou haſt no _talent_ [120]
This way, wife. Vp to thy gallery; doe, _Chuck_,
Leaue vs to talke of it, who vnderſtand it.
MER. I thinke we ha’ found a place to fit you, now, Sir.
_Gloc’ſter_.
FIT. O, no, I’ll none!
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