Sir _Char_. Why, do but hear me, Uncle; Lord, you’re so hasty! Why, look
ye, I am as ready, d’ye see, as any Man on these Occasions.
Sir _Anth_. Are you so, Sir? and I’ll make you willing, or try Toledo
with you, Sir--Why, what, I shall have you whining when you are sober
again, traversing your Chamber with Arms across, railing on Love and
Women, and at last defeated, turn whipping _Tom_, to revenge your self on
the whole Sex.
Sir _Char_. My dear Uncle, come kiss me and be friends; I will be rul’d.
[_Kisses him_.
Sir _Anth_.--A most admirable good-natur’d Boy this! [_Aside_.
Well then, dear _Charles_, know, I have brought thee now hither to the
Widow’s House, with a Resolution to have thee order matters so, as before
thou quitst her, she shall be thy own, Boy.
Sir _Char_. Gad, Uncle, thou’rt a Cherubin! Introduce me, d’ye see, and
if I do not so woo the Widow, and so do the Widow, that e’er morning she
shall be content to take me for better for worse--Renounce me! Egad, I’ll
make her know the Lord God from _Tom Bell_, before I have done with her.
Nay, backt by my noble Uncle, I’ll venture on her, had she all Cupid’s
Arrows, genus’s Beauty, and Messalina’s Fire, d’ye see.
Sir _Anth_. A sweet Boy, a very sweet Boy! Hum, thou art damnable
handsome to Night, _Charles_--Ay, thou wilt do’t; I see a kind of
resistless Leudness about thee, a most triumphant Impudence, loose and
wanton.
[_Stands looking on him_.
_Enter_ Closet.
_Clos_. Heavens, Gentlemen, what makes you here at this time of Night?
Sir _Char_. Where’s your Lady?
_Clos_. Softly, dear Sir.
Sir _Char_. Why, is she asleep? Come, come, I’ll wake her.
[_Offers to force in as to the Bed-chamber_.
_Clos_. Hold, hold, Sir; No, no, she’s a little busy, Sir.
Sir _Char_. I’ll have no Business done to Night, Sweetheart.
_Clos_. Hold, hold, I beseech you, Sir, her Mother’s with her;
For Heaven’s sake, Sir, be gone.
Sir _Char_. I’ll not budge.
Sir _Anth_. No, not a Foot.
_Clos_. The City you know, Sir, is so censorious--
Sir _Char_. Damn the City.
Sir _Anth_. All the Whigs, _Charles_, all the Whigs.
Sir _Char_. In short, I am resolv’d, d’ye see, to go to the Widow’s
Chamber.
Sir _Anth_. Harkye, Mrs. Closet I thought I had entirely engag’d you this
Evening.
_Clos_. I am perfectly yours, Sir; but how it happens so, her Mother
being there--Yet if you wou’d withdraw for half an hour, into my Chamber,
till she were gone--
Sir _Anth_. This is the Reason, _Charles_. Here, here’s two Pieces to buy
thee a Gorget.
[_Gives her Money_.
Sir _Char_. And here’s my two, because thou art industrious.
[_Gives her Money, and they go out with her_.
_Enter Lady_ Galliard _in rage, held by_ Wilding.
L. _Gal_. What have I done? Ah, whither shall I fly?
[_Weeps_.
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