Lam. I’m gone—and once more pardon my Mistake. [Bows, and goes out. Ex.
_Gill._
L. Lam. —So, this fighting Fool, so worshipp’d by the Rabble,
How meanly can a Woman make him sneak?—
405 The happy Night’s our own— [To _Loveless_.
Enter _Gill._ _Loveless_.
Lov. Excellent Creature, how I do adore thee!
L. Lam. But you, perhaps, are satisfied already—
Lov. Never; shou’dst thou be kind to all Eternity. Thou hast one Virtue
more, I pay thee Homage for; I heard from the Alcove how great a
Mistress thou art in the dear Mystery of Jilting.
L. Lam. That’s the first Lesson Women learn in Conventicles, Religion
teaches those Maxims to our Sex: by this
Kings are deposed, and Commonwealths are rul’d;
By Jilting all the Universe is fool’d. [Exeunt.
ACT V.
Scene I. A Street.
Enter _Corporal_, half drest; with Soldiers, Joyner, and Felt-maker.
Cor. Ha, Rogues, the City-Boys are up in Arms; brave Boys, all for the
King now!
Felt. Have a care what you say, Sir; but as to the City’s being in
Mutiny, that makes well for us: we shall fall to our old Trade of
plundering; something will fall to the Righteous, and there is Plunder
enough.
Cor. You plunder, Sirrah! knock him down, and carry him into the
Guard-room, and secure him.
[Two Soldiers seize him.
1 Sold. They say the Committee of Safety sate all Night at General
_Lambert’s_, about some great Affair—some rare Change, Rogues.
2 Sold. Yes, and to put off Sorrow, they say, were all right reverendly
drunk too.
Cor. I suppose there is some heavenly matter in hand; there was Treason
cried out at the General’s last night, and the Committee of no Safety
all ran away.
1 Sold. Or rather reel’d away.
406 Cor. The Ladies squeak’d, the Lords fled, and all the House was up
in Arms.
Felt. Yea, and with Reason they say; for the Pope in disguise was found
under the Lady’s Bed, and two huge Jesuits as big as the tall
_Irish-man_, with Blunderbusses; having, as ’tis said, a Design to
steal the Crown, now in Custody of the General—
2 Sold. Good lack, is’t possible?
Joyn. Nay, Sir, ’tis true, and is’t not time we look’d about us?
Cor. A Pox upon ye all for lying Knaves—secure ’em both on the Guard
till farther Order—and let us into th’ City, Boys: hay for
_Lombard-Street_.
2 Sold. Ay, hay for _Lombard-Street_; there’s a Shop I have mark’d out
for my own already.
1 Sold. There’s a handsom Citizen’s Wife, that I have an Eye upon, her
Husband’s a rich Banker, I’ll take t’one with t’other.
Joyn. You are mistaken, Sir, that Plunder is reserv’d for us, if they
begin to mutiny; that wicked City that is so weary of a Commonwealth.
2 Sold. Yes, they’re afraid of the Monster they themselves have made.
Enter _Lov._ and _Free._ in disguise.
Cor. Hah, my noble Colonel! what, in disguise!
Free. We have made our Escapes—and hope to see better times shortly,
the noble _Scotch_ General is come, Boys.
Enter _Captain_ of the Prentices, and a great Gang with him, arm’d with
Swords, Staffs, &c.
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