_Dres_. That’s well--The sanctify’d Jilt professes Innocence, yet has the
Badge of her Occupation about her Neck.
[_Pulls off the Coat_.
_Sen_. Ah, Misfortune, I have mistook his Worship’s Coat for my Gown.
[_A little Book drops out of her Bosom_.
_Dres_. What have we here? A Sermon preacht by Richard Baxter, Divine.
Gad a mercy, Sweetheart, thou art a hopeful Member of the true Protestant
Cause.
_Sen_. Alack, how the Saints may be scandaliz’d! I went but to tuck his
Worship up.
_Dres_. And comment upon the Text a little, which I suppose may be,
increase and multiply--Here, gag, and bind her.
[_Exit_ Dres.
_Sen_. Hold, hold, I am with Child!
_Lab_. Then you’ll go near to miscarry of a Babe of Grace.
_Enter_ Wild. Fop. _and others, leading in Sir_ Timothy _in
his Night-gown and Night-Gap_.
Sir _Tim_. Gentlemen, why, Gentlemen, I beseech you use a Conscience in
what you do, and have a feeling in what you go about--Pity my Age.
_Wild_. Damn’d beggarly Conscience, and needless Pity--
Sir _Tim_. Oh, fearful--But, Gentlemen, what is’t you design? is it a
general Massacre, pray? or am I the only Person aim’d at as a Sacrifice
for the Nation? I know, and all the World knows, how many Plots have been
laid against my self, both by Men, Women, and Children, the diabolical
Emissaries of the Pope.
_Wild_. How, Sirrah! [_Fiercely, he starts_.
Sir _Tim_. Nay, Gentlemen, not but I love and honour his Holiness with
all my Soul; and if his Grace did but know what I’ve done for him, d’ye
see--
_Fop_. You done for the Pope, Sirrah! Why, what have you done for the
Pope?
Sir _Tim_. Why, Sir, an’t like ye, I have done you very great Service,
very great Service; for I have been, d’ye see, in a small Tryal I had,
the cause and occasion of invalidating the Evidence to that degree, that
I suppose no Jury in Christendom will ever have the Impudence to believe
’.m hereafter, shou’d they swear against his Holiness and all the
Conclave of Cardinals.
_Wild_. And yet you plot on still, cabal, treat, and keep open Debauch,
for all the Renegado-Tories and old Commonwealthsmen to carry on the good
Cause.
Sir _Tim_. Alas, what signifies that! You know, Gentlemen, that I have
such a strange and natural Agility in turning--I shall whip about yet,
and leave ‘em all in the Lurch.
_Wild_. ‘Tis very likely; but at this time we shall not take your Word
for that.
Sir _Tim_. Bloody-minded Men, are you resolv’d to assassinate me then?
_Wild_. You trifle, Sir, and know our Business better, than to think we
come to take your Life, which wou’d not advantage a Dog, much less any
Party or Person--Come, come, your Keys, your Keys.
_Fop_. Ay, ay, discover, discover your Money, Sir, your ready--
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