_BURR and the Parson enter, meeting in the dark_. _Burr_. My lady Constance, are you come again? That's well; I have waited sufficiently for you in the dark. _Par_. Help, help, help, good Christian people! the devil, the devil's here. _Burr_. 'Tis I, madam; what do you mean? _Par_. Avoid, Satan! avoid, avoid. _Burr_. What have I here, the hairy woman? _Enter LOVEBY, and CONSTANCE with the light_. Ha! yonder's my lady Constance! who have I got? a stone priest, by this good light. How's this, Loveby too! _Lov_. Burr a-beating my reverend clergy? What makes you here at this unseasonable hour? I'll know your business. [_Draws_. _Burr_. Will you, sir? [_They fight_. _Const. Set. Par_. Help, murder, murder! _Enter, at one door, TRICE drunk, with the Watch; BIBBER and FRANCES following; at the other, NONSUCH and Servants, and FAILER_. _Non_. Murder, murder! beat down their weapons. Will you murder Sir Timorous, Mr Loveby?--[_They disarm both_.] Sir Timorous?--ha, Burr! Thieves, thieves!--sit down, good Mr Justice, and take their examinations. Now I shall know how my money went. _Trice_. They shall have justice, I warrant them. [_Goes to sit, and misses the chair_. _Bib_. The justice is almost dead drunk, my lord. _Fran_. But an't please your worship, my lord, this is not the worst sight that we have seen here to-night in your worship's house; we met three or four hugeous ugly devils, with eyes like saucers, that threw down my husband, that threw down me, that made my heart so panck ever since, as they say!-- _Non_. The devil again in my house? _Lov_. Nay, here he was, that's certain; he brought me hither, I know not how myself, and married me; Mr Setstone there can justify it: But the best is, I have a charm about me, that will lay him yet ere midnight. _Fail_. And I vow to gad, my lord, I know as little how I came hither as any man. _Burr_. Nor I. _Trice_. Nor I. _Lot_. No, I dare swear do'st thou not, Mr Justice. _Trice_. But I wonder how the devil durst come into our ward, when he knows I have been at the duties of--my family--this evening. _Enter one of the Watch, with_ TIMOROUS _and_ ISABELLA. _Watch_. An please your worship, I met this couple in the street late, and so, seeing them to be a man and woman, I brought them along with me, upon suspicion of felony together. _Fran_. This is the proud minx, that sought shelter in my house this afternoon, Mr Justice. _Fail_. Sir Timorous and Madam Isabella! I vow to gad, we are undone, Burr.-- _Isa_. Do not you know me, Mr Justice? _Lov_. Justice is blind, he knows nobody. _Isa_. My name is Isabella. _Fran_. No, thy name is Jezebella; I warrant you, there's none but rogues and papists would be abroad at this time of night. _Bib_. Hold, Frances.-- _Trice_. She's drunk, I warrant her, as any beast. I wonder, woman, you do not consider what a crying sin drunkenness is: Whom do you learn it from in our parish? I am sure you never see me worse.