_Fal_. That’s as I shall find occasion.
[_Exit_ Fal.
_Pis. Alcander_ is a worthy Youth and brave,
I wish you would esteem him so;
’.is true, there’s now some difference between us,
Our Interests are dispos’d to several ways,
But Time and Management will join us all:
I’ll leave you; but prithee make it thy business
To get my Pardon for last night’s rudeness.
_Am_. I shall not fail.
[_Exit_ Pis.
_Re-enter_ Falatius, _with_ Alcander _melancholy_.
_Fal_. Here, Madam, here he is.
_Am_. Tell me, _Alcander_, why you treat me thus?
You say you love me, if I could believe you.
_Alcan_. Believe a Man! away, you have no wit,
I’ll say as much to every pretty Woman.
_Am_. But I have given you no cause to wrong me.
_Alcan_. That was my Fate, not Fault, I knew him not:
But yet to make up my offence to you,
I offer you my life; for I’m undone,
If any faults of mine should make you sad.
_Am_. Here, take your Sword again, my Brother’s well.
[_She gives him his Sword again_.
_Fal_. Yes, by _Jove_, as I am: you had been finely serv’d,
If I had kill’d you now.
_Am_. What, sorry for the news? ha, ha, ha.
_Alcan_. No, sorry y’are a Woman, a mere Woman.
_Am_. Why, did you ever take me for a Man? ha, ha.
_Alcan_. Thy Soul, I thought, was all so; but I see
You have your weakness, can dissemble too;
--I would have sworn that Sorrow in your face
Had been a real one:
Nay, you can die in jest, you can, false Woman:
I hate thy Sex for this.
_Fal_. By Jove, there is no truth in them, that’s flat.
[_She looks sad_.
_Alcan_. Why that repentant look? what new design?
Come, now a tear or two to second that,
And I am soft again, a very Ass.
--But yet that Look would call a Saint from th’.ltar,
And make him quite forget his Ceremony,
Or take thee for his Deity:
--But yet thou hast a very Hell within,
Which those bewitching Eyes draw Souls into.
_Fal_. Here’s he that fits you, Ladies.
_Am_. Nay, now y’are too unjust, and I will leave you.
_Alcan_. Ah, do not go, I know not by what Magick,
[_Holds her_.
But as you move, my Soul yields that way too.
_Fal_. The truth on’t is, she has a strong magnetick Power, that I find.
_Alcan_. But I would have none find it but my self,
No Soul but mine shall sympathize with hers.
_Fal_. Nay, that you cannot help.
_Alcan_. Yes, but I can, and take it from thee, if I thought it did so.
_Oli_. No quarrels here, I pray.
_Fal_. Madam, I owe a Reverence to the Place.
_Alcan_. I’ll scarce allow thee that;
Madam, I’ll leave you to your Lover.
_Am_. I hate thee but for saying so.
_Alcan_. Quit him then.
_Am_. So I can and thee too. [_Offers to go out_.
_Alcan_. The Devil take me if you escape me so. [_Goes after her_.
_Fal_. And I’ll not be out-done in importunity.
[_Goes after_.
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