_Limb._ It is the property of a goddess to forgive. Accept of this oblation; with this humble kiss, I here present it to thy fair hand: I conclude thee innocent without looking, and depend wholly upon thy mercy. [_Offers the Key._ _Trick._ No, keep it, keep it: the lodgings are your own. _Limb._ If I should keep it, I were unworthy of forgiveness: I will no longer hold this fatal instrument of our separation. _Trick._ [_Taking it._] Rise, sir: I will endeavour to overcome my nature, and forgive you; for I am so scrupulously nice in love, that it grates my very soul to be suspected: Yet, take my counsel, and satisfy yourself. _Limb._ I would not be satisfied, to be possessor of Potosi, as my brother Brainsick says. Come to bed, dear Pug.--Now would not I change my condition, to be an eastern monarch! [_Exeunt._ _Enter_ WOODALL _and_ GERVASE. _Gerv._ O lord, sir, are we alive! _Wood._ Alive! why, we were never in any danger: Well, she is a rare manager of a fool! _Gerv._ Are you disposed yet to receive good counsel? Has affliction wrought upon you? _Wood._ Yes, I must ask thy advice in a most important business. I have promised a charity to Mrs Saintly, and she expects it with a beating heart a-bed: Now, I have at present no running cash to throw away; my ready money is all paid to Mrs Tricksy, and the bill is drawn upon me for to-night. _Gerv._ Take advice of your pillow. _Wood._ No, sirrah; since you have not the grace to offer yours, I will for once make use of my authority and command you to perform the foresaid drudgery in my place. _Gerv._ Zookers, I cannot answer it to my conscience. _Wood._ Nay, an your conscience can suffer you to swear, it shall suffer you to lie too: I mean in this sense. Come, no denial, you must do it; she is rich, and there is a provision for your life. _Gerv._ I beseech you, sir, have pity on my soul. _Wood._ Have you pity of your body: There is all the wages you must expect. _Gerv._ Well, sir, you have persuaded me: I will arm my conscience with a resolution of making her an honourable amends by marriage; for to-morrow morning a parson shall authorise my labours, and turn fornication into duty. And, moreover, I will enjoin myself, by way of penance, not to touch her for seven nights after. _Wood._ Thou wert predestinated for a husband, I see, by that natural instinct: As we walk, I will instruct thee how to behave thyself, with secrecy and silence. _Gerv._ I have a key of the garden, to let us out the back-way into the street, and so privately to our lodging. _Wood._ 'Tis well: I will plot the rest of my affairs a-bed; for it is resolved that Limberham shall not wear horns alone: and I am impatient till I add to my trophy the spoils of Brainsick. [_Exeunt._ ACT V.--SCENE I. _Enter_ WOODALL _and_ JUDITH.