Blunt. False, ’Sheartlikins, what dost thou take me for a _Jew?_ an
insensible Heathen,—A Pox of thy old jealous Husband: and he were dead,
egad, sweet Soul, it shou’d be none of my fault, if I did not marry
thee.
Luc. It never shou’d be mine.
Blunt. Good Soul, I’m the fortunatest Dog!
Luc. Are you not undrest yet?
Blunt. As much as my Impatience will permit. [Goes towards the Bed in
his Shirt and Drawers.
Luc. Hold, Sir, put out the Light, it may betray us else.
Blunt. Any thing, I need no other Light but that of thine
Eyes!—’sheartlikins, there I think I had it. [Aside. [Puts out the
Candle, the Bed descends, he gropes about to find it.
—Why—why—where am I got? what, not yet?—where 54 are you sweetest?—ah,
the Rogue’s silent now—a pretty Love-trick this—how she’ll laugh at me
anon!—you need not, my dear Rogue! you need not! I’m all on a fire
already—come, come, now call me in for pity—Sure I’m enchanted! I have
been round the Chamber, and can find neither Woman, nor Bed—I lockt the
Door, I’m sure she cannot go that way; or if she cou’d, the Bed cou’d
not—Enough, enough, my pretty Wanton, do not carry the Jest too far—Ha,
betray’d! Dogs! Rogues! Pimps! help! help! [Lights on a Trap, and is
let down.
Enter _Lucetta_, _Philippo_, and _Sancho_ with a Light.
Phil. Ha, ha, ha, he’s dispatcht finely.
Luc. Now, Sir, had I been coy, we had mist of this Booty.
Phil. Nay when I saw ’twas a substantial Fool, I was mollified; but
when you doat upon a Serenading Coxcomb, upon a Face, fine Clothes, and
a Lute, it makes me rage.
Luc. You know I never was guilty of that Folly, my dear _Philippo_, but
with your self—But come let’s see what we have got by this.
Phil. A rich Coat!—Sword and Hat!—these Breeches too—are well
lin’d!—see here a Gold Watch!—a Purse—ha! Gold!—at least two hundred
Pistoles! a bunch of Diamond Rings; and one with the Family Arms!—a
Gold Box!—with a Medal of his King! and his Lady Mother’s
Picture!—these were sacred Reliques, believe me!—see, the Wasteband of
his Breeches have a Mine of Gold!—Old Queen _Bess’s_. We have a Quarrel
to her ever since _Eighty Eight_, and may therefore justify the Theft,
the Inquisition might have committed it.
Luc. See, a Bracelet of bow’d Gold, these his Sister ty’d about his Arm
at parting—but well—for all this, I fear his being a Stranger may make
a noise, and hinder our Trade with them hereafter.
Phil. That’s our security; he is not only a Stranger to us, but to the
Country too—the Common-Shore into which 55 he is descended, thou
know’st, conducts him into another Street, which this Light will hinder
him from ever finding again—he knows neither your Name, nor the Street
where your House is, nay, nor the way to his own Lodgings.
Luc. And art not thou an unmerciful Rogue, not to afford him one Night
for all this?—I should not have been such a _Jew_.
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