Sir. _Tim_. Ay, but I will have none of her--For, look you, _Sham_,
there is but two sorts of Love in this World--Now I am sure the Rogue
did love her; and since it was not to marry her, it was for the thing
you wot on, as appears by his writing to her now--But yet, I will not
believe what this Boy said, till I see it.
_Sham_. Faith, Sir, I have thought of a thing, that may both clear your
doubt, and give us a little Mirth.
Sir _Tim_. I conceive thee.
_Sham_. I know y’are quick of Apprehension, Sir _Timothy_.
Sir _Tim_. O, your Servant, dear _Sham_--But to let thee see, I am none
of the dullest, we are to Jig it in Masquerade this Evening, hah.
_Sham_. Faith, Sir, you have it, and there you may have an Opportunity
to court _Bellmour’s_ Sister.
Sir _Tim_. ‘Tis a good Motion, and we will follow it; send to the Duke’s
House, and borrow some Habits presently.
_Sham_. I’ll about it, Sir.
Sir _Tim_. Make haste to my Lodging--But hark ye--not a word of this to
_Betty Flauntit_, she’ll be up in Arms these two Days, if she go not
with us; and though I think the fond Devil is true to me, yet it were
worse than Wedlock, if I should be so to her too.
_Tho Whores in all things else the Mastery get,
In this alone, like Wives, they must submit_.
Exeunt.
ACT III.
SCENE I. _A Room in Lord_ Plotwell’s _House_.
_Enter Lord_ Plotwell, Bellmour _leading in_ Diana, _follow’d by
_Charles Bellmour, Phillis, _and other Ladies and Gentlemen_.
[_Musick plays, till they are all seated_.
_Lord_. Here, Nephew, I resign that Trust, which was repos’d in me by
your dead Father; which was, that on your Wedding-Day I should thus--
make you Master of your whole Fortune, you being married to my liking--
And now, _Charles_, and you, my Niece _Phillis_, you may demand your
Portions to morrow, if you please, for he is oblig’d to pay you the Day
after that of his Marriage.
_Phil_. There’s time enough, my Lord.
_Lord_. Come, come, Ladies, in troth you must take but little Rest to
Night, in complaisance to the Bride and Bridegroom, who, I believe, will
take but little--_Frank_--why, _Frank_--what, hast thou chang’d thy
Humour with thy Condition? Thou wert not wont to hear the Musick play
in vain.
_Bel_. My Lord, I cannot dance.
_Dia_. Indeed, you’re wondrous sad,
And I, methinks, do bear thee Company,
I know not why; and yet excess of Joy
Have had the same Effects with equal Grief.
_Bel_. ‘Tis true, and I have now felt the Extremes of both.
_Lord_. Why, Nephew _Charles_--has your Breeding at the Academy
instructed your Heels in no Motion?
_Char_. My Lord, I’ll make one.
_Phil_. And I another, for Joy that my Brother’s made happy in so fair
a Bride.
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