Belv. Let’s first to Dinner, and after that we’ll pass the Day as you
please—but at Night ye must all be at my Devotion.
Will. I will not fail you. [Exeunt.
ACT II.
Scene I. The Long Street.
Enter _Belvile_ and _Frederick_ in Masquing-Habits, and _Willmore_ in
his own Clothes, with a Vizard in his Hand.
Will. But why thus disguis’d and muzzl’d?
Belv. Because whatever Extravagances we commit in these Faces, our own
may not be oblig’d to answer ’em.
Will. I should have chang’d my Eternal Buff too: but no matter, my
little Gipsy wou’d not have found me out then: for if she should change
hers, it is impossible I should know her, unless I should hear her
prattle—A Pox on’t, I cannot get her out of my Head: Pray Heaven, if
ever I do see her again, she prove damnable ugly, that I may fortify my
self against her Tongue.
Belv. Have a care of Love, for o’ my conscience she was not of a
Quality to give thee any hopes.
Will. Pox on ’em, why do they draw a Man in then? She has play’d with
my Heart so, that ’twill never lie still till I have met with some kind
Wench, that will play the Game out with me—Oh for my Arms full of soft,
white, kind—Woman! such as I fancy _Angelica_.
Belv. This is her House, if you were but in stock to get admittance;
they have not din’d yet; I perceive the Picture is not out.
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Enter _Blunt_.
Will. I long to see the Shadow of the fair Substance, a Man may gaze on
that for nothing.
Blunt. Colonel, thy Hand—and thine, _Fred_. I have been an Ass, a
deluded Fool, a very Coxcomb from my Birth till this Hour, and heartily
repent my little Faith.
Belv. What the Devil’s the matter with thee _Ned?_
Blunt. Oh such a Mistress, _Fred_, such a Girl!
Will. Ha! where?
Fred. Ay where!
Blunt. So fond, so amorous, so toying and fine! and all for sheer Love,
ye Rogue! Oh how she lookt and kiss’d! and sooth’d my Heart from my
Bosom. I cannot think I was awake, and yet methinks I see and feel her
Charms still—_Fred._—Try if she have not left the Taste of her balmy
Kisses upon my Lips— [Kisses him.
Belv. Ha, ha, ha!
Will. Death Man, where is she?
Blunt. What a Dog was I to stay in dull _England_ so long—How have I
laught at the Colonel when he sigh’d for Love! but now the little
Archer has reveng’d him, and by his own Dart, I can guess at all his
Joys, which then I took for Fancies, mere Dreams and Fables—Well, I’m
resolved to sell all in _Essex_, and plant here for ever.
Belv. What a Blessing ’tis, thou hast a Mistress thou dar’st boast of;
for I know thy Humour is rather to have a proclaim’d Clap, than a
secret Amour.
Will. Dost know her Name?
Blunt. Her Name? No,’sheartlikins: what care I for Names?—
She’s fair, young, brisk and kind, even to ravishment: and what a Pox
care I for knowing her by another Title?
Will. Didst give her anything?
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