_Gal_. Thou wrong’st an honest ingenious Fellow, to call him Pimp.
_Pet_. Ah, Signior, what his Worship pleases!
_Gal_. That thou art I’ll be sworn, or what any man’s Worship pleases;
for let me tell ye, _Harry_, he is capacitated to oblige in any
quality: for, Sir, he’s your brokering Jew, your Fencing, Dancing, and
Civility-Master, your Linguist, your Antiquary, your Bravo, your Pathick,
Your Whore, your Pimp; and a thousand more Excellencies he has to supply
The necessities of the wanting Stranger.--Well, Sirrah--what design now
Upon Sir _Signal_ and his wise Governour?--What do you represent now?
_Pet_. A Barber, Sir.
_Gal_. And why a Barber, good Signior _Petro_?
_Pet_. Oh, Sir, the sooner to take the heights of their Judgments; it
gives handsome opportunities to commend their Faces; for if they are
pleas’d with flattery, the certain sign of a Fool’s to be most tickled
when most commended, I conclude ‘em the fitter for my purpose; they
already put great confidence in me, will have no Masters but of my
recommending, all which I supply my self, by the help of my several
disguises; by which, and my industry, I doubt not but to pick up a good
honest painful livelihood, by cheating these two Reverend Coxcombs.
_Gal_. How the Devil got’st thou this credit with ‘em?
_Pet_. O, easily, Sir, as Knaves get Estates, or Fools Employments.
_Fil_. I hope amongst all your good qualities, you forgot not your more
natural one of pimping.
_Pet_. No, I assure you, Sir; I have told Sir _Signal Buffoon_, that no
Man lives here without his Inamorata: which very word has so fir’d him,
that he’s resolved to have an Inamorata whate’er it cost him; and, as in
all things else, I have in that too promised my assistance.
_Gal_. If you assist him no better than you have done me, he may stay
long enough for his Inamorata.
_Pet_. Why, faith, Sir, I lie at my young Lady night and day; but she is
so loth to part with that same Maiden-head of hers yet--but to morrow
night, Sir, there’s hopes.--
_Gal_. To morrow night; Oh, ‘tis an Age in Love! Desire knows no time but
the present, ‘tis now I wish, and now I wou’d enjoy: a new Day ought to
bring a new Desire.
_Pet_. Alas, Sir, I’m but an humble Bravo.
_Gal_. Yes, thou’rt a Pimp, yet want’st the Art to procure a longing
Lover the Woman he adores, though but a common Curtezan--Oh, confound her
Maiden-head--she understands her Trade too well, to have that badge of
Innocence.
_Pet_. I offered her her Price, Sir.
_Gal_. Double it, give any thing, for that’s the best receipt I ever
found to soften Womens hearts.
_Pet_. Well, Sir, she will be this Evening in the Garden of _Medices
Villa_, there you may get an opportunity to advance your Interest--I must
step and trim _Mr. Tickletext_, and then am at your service.
[_Exit_ Petro.
_Jul_. What is this Knight and his Governour, who have the blessed
Fortune to be manag’d by this Squire?
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