_Cor_. My Cavalier!
[_Addressing to Sir Sig_. Tick. _pulls him by, and speaks_.
_Tick_.--Lady--
Sir _Sig_. You, Sir! why, who the Devil made you a Cavalier? most
_Potentissima Signiora_, I am the man of Title, by name Sir _Signal
Buffoon_, sole Son and Heir to Eight Thousand Pound a year.--
_Tick_. Oh, Sir, are you the Man she looks for?
Sir _Sig_. I, Sir? no, Sir: I’d have ye know, Sir, I scorn any Woman, be
she never so fair, unless her design be honest and honourable.
_Cor_. The Man of all the World I’ve chosen out, from all the Wits and
Beauties I have seen,--to have most finely beaten. [_Aside_.
Sir _Sig_. How! In love with me already,--she’s damnable handsome too:
now wou’d my Tutor were hang’d a little for an hour or two, out of the
way. [_Aside_.
_Cor_. Why fly you not into my Arms,
[_She approaching, he shunning_.
These Arms that were design’d for soft Embraces?
Sir _Sig_. Ay, and if my Tutor were not here, the Devil take him that
wou’d hinder ‘em--and I think that’s civil, egad.
_Tick_. Why, how now, _Barberacho_, what, am I cozen’d then, and is Sir
_Signal_ the Man in favour? [_Aside to_ Petro.
_Pet_. Lord, Signior, that so wise a man as you cannot perceive her
meaning,--for the Devil take me if I can. [_Aside_.--Why this is done to
take off all suspicion from you--and lay it on him;--don’t you conceive
it, Signior?
_Tick_. Yes, honest Rogue,--Oh the witty Wag-tail,--I have a part to play
too, that shall confirm it--young Gentlewoman.--
_Cor_. Ah, Belle ingrate, is’t thus you recompense my suffering Love? to
fly this Beauty so ador’d by all, that slight the ready Conquest of the
World, to trust a Heart with you?--Ah--_Traditor Cruella_.
Sir _Sig_. Poor Heart, it goes to the very soul of me to be so coy and
scornful to her, that it does; but a pox on’t, her over-fondness will
discover all.
_Tick_. Fly, fly, young Man, whilst yet thou hast a spark of Virtue
shining in thee, fly the temptations of this young Hypocrite; the Love
that she pretends with so much zeal and ardour, is indecent,
unwarrantable and unlawful; first indecent, as she is Woman--for thou art
Woman--and beautiful Woman--yes, very beautiful Woman; on whom Nature
hath shew’d her height of Excellence in the out-work, but left thee
unfinisht, imperfect and impure.
_Cor_. Heavens, what have we here?
Sir _Sig_. A Pox of my Sir _Domine_; now is he beside his Text, and will
spoil all.
_Tick_. Secondly, Unwarrantable; by what Authority dost thou seduce with
the Allurements of thine Eyes, and the Conjurements of thy Tongue, the
Wastings of thy Hands, and the Tinklings of thy Feet, the young Men in
the Villages?
_Cor_. Sirrah, how got this Madman in? seize him, and take him hence.
Sir _Sig_. _Corpo de mi_, my Governour tickles her notably, I’faith--but
had he let the care of my Soul alone to night, and have let me taken care
of my Body, ‘twould have been more material at this time.
_Tick_. Thirdly, Unlawful--
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