PVG. O! Is it ſo? Is there the enter-view?
Haue I drawne to you, at laſt, my cunning _Lady_?
The _Diuell_ is an _Aſſe_! fool’d off! and beaten! 25
Nay, made an inſtrument! and could not ſent it!
Well, ſince yo’ haue ſhowne the malice of a woman,
No leſſe then her true wit, and learning, Miſtreſſe,
I’ll try, if little _Pug_ haue the malignity
To recompence it, and ſo ſaue his danger. 30
’Tis not the paine, but the diſcredite of it,
The _Diuell_ ſhould not keepe a body intire.
WIT. Away, fall backe, ſhe comes.
MAN. I’ll leaue you, Sir,
The Maſter of my chamber. I haue buſineſſe.
WIT. M^rs!
M^rs. FI. You make me paint, S^r.
WIT. The’are faire colours, 35
_Lady_, and naturall! I did receiue
Some commands from you, lately, gentle _Lady_, [123]
_This Scene is acted at two windo’s as out of_
_two contiguous buildings._
But ſo perplex’d, and wrap’d in the deliuery,
As I may feare t’haue miſ-interpreted:
But muſt make ſuit ſtill, to be neere your grace. 40
M^rs. FI. Who is there with you, S^r?
WIT. None, but my ſelfe.
It falls out. _Lady_, to be a deare friends lodging.
Wherein there’s ſome conſpiracy of fortune
With your poore ſeruants bleſ affections.
M^rs. FI. Who was it ſung?
WIT. He, _Lady_, but hee’s gone, 45
Vpon my entreaty of him, ſeeing you
Approach the window. Neither need you doubt him,
If he were here. He is too much a gentleman.
M^rs. FI. Sir, if you iudge me by this ſimple action,
And by the outward habite, and complexion 50
Of eaſineſſe, it hath, to your deſigne;
You may with Iuſtice, ſay, I am a woman:
And a ſtrange woman. But when you ſhall pleaſe,
To bring but that concurrence of my fortune,
To memory, which to day your ſelfe did vrge: 55
It may beget ſome fauour like excuſe,
Though none like reaſon.
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