MILLA. Why does not the man take me? Would you have me give myself to
you over again?
MIRA. Ay, and over and over again. [_Kisses her hand_.] I would have
you as often as possibly I can. Well, heav’n grant I love you not too
well; that’s all my fear.
SIR WIL. ’Sheart, you’ll have time enough to toy after you’re married,
or, if you will toy now, let us have a dance in the meantime; that we who
are not lovers may have some other employment besides looking on.
MIRA. With all my heart, dear Sir Wilfull. What shall we do for music?
FOIB. Oh, sir, some that were provided for Sir Rowland’s entertainment
are yet within call. [_A dance_.]
LADY. As I am a person, I can hold out no longer: I have wasted my
spirits so to-day already that I am ready to sink under the fatigue; and
I cannot but have some fears upon me yet, that my son Fainall will pursue
some desperate course.
MIRA. Madam, disquiet not yourself on that account: to my knowledge his
circumstances are such he must of force comply. For my part I will
contribute all that in me lies to a reunion. In the meantime, madam
[_to_ MRS. FAINALL], let me before these witnesses restore to you this
deed of trust: it may be a means, well managed, to make you live easily
together.
From hence let those be warned, who mean to wed,
Lest mutual falsehood stain the bridal-bed:
For each deceiver to his cost may find
That marriage frauds too oft are paid in kind.
[_Exeunt Omnes_.
EPILOGUE.
Spoken by MRS. BRACEGIRDLE.
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