The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06Dryden, John
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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06
Dryden, John
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_Pleas._ Love, jealousy, and disdain, how they torture me at once! and
this insensible creature--were I but in his place--[_To him._] Think,
that this very instant she is yours no more: Now, now she is giving up
herself, with so much violence of love, that if thunder roared, she
could not hear it.
_Limb._ I have been whetting all this while: They shall be so taken in
the manner, that Mars and Venus shall be nothing to them.
_Pleas._ Make haste; go on then.
_Limb._ Yes, I will go on;--and yet my mind misgives me plaguily.
_Saint._ Again backsliding!
_Pleas._ Have you no sense of honour in you?
_Limb._ Well, honour is honour, and I must go: But I shall never get
me such another Pug again! O, my heart! my poor tender heart! it is
just breaking with Pug's unkindness! [_They drag him out._
SCENE II.--WOODALL _and_ TRICKSY _discovered in the Garden-house._
_Enter_ GERVASE _to them._
_Gerv._ Make haste, and save yourself, sir; the enemy's at hand: I
have discovered him from the corner, where you set me sentry.
_Wood._ Who is it?
_Gerv._ Who should it be, but Limberham? armed with a two-hand fox. O
Lord, O Lord!
_Trick._ Enter quickly into the still-house, both of you, and leave me
to him: There is a spring-lock within, to open it when we are gone.
_Wood._ Well, I have won the party and revenge, however: A minute
longer, and I had won the tout. [_They go in: She locks the Door._
_Enter_ LIMBERHAM, _with a great Sword._
_Limb._ Disloyal Pug!
_Trick._ What humour is this? you are drunk, it seems: Go sleep.
_Limb._ Thou hast robbed me of my repose for ever: I am like Macbeth,
after the death of good king Duncan; methinks a voice says to
me,--Sleep no more; Tricksy has murdered sleep.
_Trick._ Now I find it: You are willing to save your settlement, and
are sent by some of your wise counsellors, to pick a quarrel with me.
_Limb._ I have been your cully above these seven years; but, at last,
my eyes are opened to your witchcraft; and indulgent heaven has taken
care of my preservation. In short, madam, I have found you out; and,
to cut off preambles, produce your adulterer.
_Trick._ If I have any, you know him best: You are the only ruin of my
reputation. But if I have dishonoured my family, for the love of you,
methinks you should be the last man to upbraid me with it.
_Limb._ I am sure you are of the family of your abominable great
grandam Eve; but produce the man, or, by my father's soul--
_Trick._ Still I am in the dark.
_Limb._ Yes, you have been in the dark; I know it: But I shall bring
you to light immediately.
_Trick._ You are not jealous?
_Limb._ No; I am too certain to be jealous: But you have a man here,
that shall be nameless; let me see him.
_Trick._ Oh, if that be your business, you had best search: And when
you have wearied yourself, and spent your idle humour, you may find me
above, in my chamber, and come to ask my pardon. [_Going._
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