Sir _Feeb_. Haste away! there ‘tis again--No--’tis not me she means:
what, at your Tricks and Intrigues already?--Yes, yes, I am destin’d
a Cuckold--
_Let_. Say, am I not your Wife? can you deny me?
Sir _Feeb_. Wife! adod, ‘tis I she means--’tis I she means--[_Merrily_.
_Let_. Oh _Bellmour, Bellmour_.
[_Sir _Feeb_. starts back from her hands_.
Sir _Feeb_. Hum--what’s that--_Bellmour_!
_Let_. Hah! Sir _Feeble_!--he would not, Sir, have us’d me thus
unkindly.
Sir _Feeb_. Oh--I’m glad ‘tis no worse--_Bellmour_, quoth a! I thought
the Ghost was come again.
_Phil_. Why did you not speak, Sir, all this while?--my Lady weeps with
your Unkindness.
Sir _Feeb_. I did but hold my peace, to hear how prettily she prattled
Love: But, fags, you are naught to think of a young Fellow--ads bobs,
you are now.
_Let_. I only say--he wou’d not have been so unkind to me.
Sir _Feeb_. But what makes ye out at this Hour, and with these Jewels?
_Phil_. Alas, Sir, we thought the City was in Arms, and packt up our
things to secure ‘em, if there had been a necessity for Flight. For
had they come to plundering once, they wou’d have begun with the rich
Aldermen’s Wives, you know, Sir.
Sir _Feeb_. Ads bobs, and so they would--but there was no Arms, nor
Mutiny--where’s _Francis_?
_Bel_. Here, Sir.
Sir _Feeb_. Here, Sir--why, what a story you made of a Meeting in the
Hall, and--Arms, and--a--the Devil of any thing was stirring, but a
couple of old Fools, that sat gaping and waiting for one another’s
business--
_Bel_. Such a Message was brought me, Sir.
Sir _Feeb_. Brought! thou’rt an Ass, _Francis_--but no more--come, come,
let’s to bed--
_Let_. To Bed, Sir! what, by Day-light?--for that’s hasting on--I wou’d
not for the World--the Night wou’d hide my Blushes--but the Day--wou’d
let me see my self in your Embraces.
Sir _Feeb_. Embraces, in a Fiddlestick; why, are we not married?
_Let_. ‘Tis true, Sir, and Time will make me more familiar with you, but
yet my Virgin Modesty forbids it. I’ll to _Diana’s_ Chamber, the Night
will come again.
Sir _Feeb_. For once you shall prevail; and this damn’d Jant has pretty
well mortified me:--a Pox of your Mutiny, _Francis_.--Come, I’ll conduct
thee to _Diana_, and lock thee in, that I may have thee safe, Rogue.--
_We’ll give young Wenches leave to whine and blush,
And fly those Blessings which--ads bobs, they wish_.
[_Exeunt_.
ACT IV.
SCENE I. _Sir _Feeble’s_ House_.
_Enter Lady_ Fulbank, Gayman _fine, gently pulling her back
by the hand; and_ Ralph _meets ‘em_.
L. _Ful_. How now, _Ralph_--Let your Lady know I am come to wait on her.
[_Exit _Ralph.
_Gay_. Oh, why this needless Visit--
Your Husband’s safe, at least till Evening safe.
Why will you not go back,
And give me one soft hour, though to torment me?
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