Sir _Char_. Well, well, I’ll be content with Performance then to night,
and trust you for your Promise till to morrow.
Sir _Anth_. [_peeping_.] Ah, Rogue! by George, he out-does my
Expectations of him.
L. _Gal_. What Imposition’s this! I’ll call for help.
_Sir. Char_. You need not, you’ll do my business better alone.
[_Pulls her_.
L. _Gal_. What shall I do? how shall I send him hence? [_Aside_.
Sir _Anth_. He shall ne’er drink small Beer more, that’s positive; I’ll
burn all’s Books too, they have help’d to spoil him; and sick or well,
sound or unsound, Drinking shall be his Diet, and Whoring his Study.
[_Aside, peeping unseen_.
Sir _Char_. Come, come, no pausing; your Promise, or I’ll to Bed.
[_Offers to pull off his Breeches, having pulled
off almost all the rest of his Clothes_.
L. _Gal_. What shall I do? here is no Witness near: And to be rid of him
I’ll promise him; he’ll have forgot it in his sober Passion. [_Aside_.
Hold, I do swear I will--
[_He fumbling to undo his Breeches_.
Sir _Char_. What?
L. _Gal_. Marry you.
Sir _Char_. When?
L. _Gal_. Nay, that’s too much--Hold, hold, I will to morrow--Now you are
satisfy’d, you will withdraw?
_Enter Sir_ Anth. _and_ Closet.
Sir _Anth. Charles_, Joy, _Charles_, give you Joy, here’s two substantial
Witnesses.
_Clos_. I deny it, Sir; I heard no such thing.
Sir _Anth_. What, what, Mrs. Closet, a Waiting-woman of Honour, and
flinch from her Evidence! Gad, I’ll damn thy Soul if thou dar’st swear
what thou say’st.
L. _Gal_. How, upon the Catch, Sir! am I betray’d?
Base and unkind, is this your humble Love?
Is all your whining come to this, false Man?
By Heaven, I’ll be reveng’d.
[_She goes out in a Rage with_ Closet.
Sir _Char_. Nay, Gad, you’re caught, struggle and flounder as you please,
Sweetheart, you’ll but intangle more; let me alone to tickle your Gills,
i’faith. [_Looking after her_.--Uncle, get ye home about your Business;
I hope you’ll give me the good morrow, as becomes me--I say no more, a
Word to the Wise--
Sir _Anth_. By George, thou’rt a brave Fellow; why, I did not think it
had been in thee, Man. Well, adieu; I’ll give thee such a good morrow,
_Charles_--the Devil’s in him!--’Bye, Charles--a plaguy Rogue!--’night,
Boy--a divine Youth!
[_Going and returning, as not able to leave him. Exit_.
Sir _Char_. Gad, I’ll not leave her now, till she is mine;
Then keep her so by constant Consummation.
Let Man o’ God do his, I’ll do my Part,
In spite of all her Fickleness and Art;
There’s one sure way to fix a Widow’s Heart.
[_Exit_.
ACT V.
SCENE I. _Sir_ Timothy’s _House_.
_Enter_ Dresswell, Foppington, Laboir, _and five or six more
disguised with Wizards and dark Lanthorns_.
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