Euph. _Olinda_ stays long; I hope she has overtook the Cavalier. Lord, how I am concern’d; if this should be Love now, I were in fine condition, at least if he be married, or a Lover: Oh that I fear: hang me, if it has not disorder’d me all over. But see, where she comes with him too. Enter _Olinda_ and _Alonzo_. Olin. Here he is, Madam, I hope ’tis the right Man. Alon. Madam, you see what haste I make to obey your kind Commands. Euph. ’Twas as kindly done, Sir; but I fear when you know to what end ’tis, you’ll repent your Haste. Alon. ’Tis very likely; but if I do, you are not the first of your Sex that has put me to Repentance: But lift up your Veil, and if your Face be good— [Offers to lift up her Veil. Euph. Stay, you’re too hasty. Alon. Nay, let’s have fair Play on both sides, I’ll hide nothing from you. [Offers again. Euph. I have a Question or two to ask you first. 238 Alon. I can promise nothing till I see my Reward. I am a base Barterer, here’s one for t’other; you saw your Man and lik’d him, and if I like you when I see you— [Offers again. Euph. But if you do not, must all my liking be castaway? Alon. As for that, trust to my good Nature; a frank Wench has hitherto taken me as much as Beauty. And one Proof you have already given of that, in this kind Invitation: come, come, do not lose my little new-gotten good Opinion of thee, by being coy and peevish. [Offers again. Euph. You’re strangely impatient, Sir. Alon. O you should like me the better for that, ’tis a sign of Youth and Fire. Euph. But, Sir, before I let you see my Face— Alon. I hope I must not promise you to like it. Euph. No, that were too unreasonable, but I must know whether you are a Lover. Alon. What an idle Question’s that to a brisk young Fellow? A Lover! yes, and that as often as I see a new Face. Euph. That I’ll allow. Alon. That’s kindly said; and now do I find I shall be in love with thine as soon as I see’t, for I am half so with thy Humour already. Euph. Are you not married, Sir? Alon. Married! Euph. Now I dread his Answer. [Aside.] Yes, married. Alon. Why, I hope you make no Scruple of Conscience, to be kind to a married Man. Euph. Now do I find, you hope I am a Curtezan that come to bargain for a Night or two; but if I possess you, it must be for ever. Alon. For ever let it be then. Come, let’s begin on any Terms. Euph. I cannot blame you, Sir, for this mistake, since what I’ve rashly done, has given you cause to think I am not virtuous. 239 Alon. Faith, Madam, Man is a strange ungovern’d thing; yet I in the whole course of my Life have taken the best care I could, to make as few Mistakes as possible: and treating all Women-kind alike, we seldom err; for where we find one as you profess to be, we happily light on a hundred of the sociable and reasonable sort. Euph. But sure you are so much a Gentleman, that you may be convinc’d? Alon. Faith, if I be mistaken, I cannot devise what other use you can make of me.