_Bel._ Wildblood, I perceive the women understand little of discourse; their gallants do not use them to it: They get upon their jennets, and prance before their ladies' windows; there the palfrey curvets and bounds, and, in short, entertains them for his master. _Wild._ And this horseplay they call making love. _Beat._ Your father, madam---- _Alon._ Daughters! what cavaliers are those which were talking by you? _Jac._ Englishmen, I believe, sir, at their devotions.--Cavalier, would you would try to pray a little better than you have rallied. [_Aside to_ WILD. _Wild._ Hang me if I put all my devotions out of order for you: I remember I prayed but on Tuesday last, and my time comes not till Tuesday next. _Mask._ You had as good pray, sir: she will not stir till you have: Say any thing. _Wild._ Fair lady, though I am not worthy of the least of your favours, yet give me the happiness this evening to see you at your father's door, that I may acquaint you with part of my sufferings. [_Aside to_ JAC. _Alon._ Come, daughters, have you done? _Jac._ Immediately, sir.--Cavalier, I will not fail to be there at the time appointed, if it be but to teach you more wit, henceforward, than to engage your heart so lightly. [_Aside to_ WILD. _Wild._ I have engaged my heart with so much zeal and true devotion to your divine beauty, that---- _Alon._ What means this cavalier? _Jac._ Some zealous ejaculation. _Alan._ May the saint hear him! _Jac._ I'll answer for her. [_Exeunt Father and Daughters._ _Wild._ Now, Bellamy, what success? _Bel._ I prayed to a more marble saint than that was in the shrine; but you, it seems, have been successful. _Wild._ And so shalt thou; let me alone for both. _Bel._ If you'll undertake it, I'll make bold to indulge my love, and within these two hours be a desperate inamorato. I feel I am coming apace to it. _Wild._ Faith, I can love at any time with a wish, at my rate: I give my heart according to the old law of pawns, to be returned me before sunset. _Bel._ I love only that I may keep my heart warm; for a man's a pool, if love stir him not; and to bring it to that pass, I first resolve whom to love, and presently after imagine I am in love: for a strong imagination is required in a lover as much as in a witch. _Wild._ And is this all your receipt? _Bel._ These are my principal ingredients; as for piques, jealousies, duels, daggers, and halters, I let them alone to the vulgar. _Wild._ Pr'ythee, let's round the street a little; till Maskall watches for their woman. _Bel._ That's well thought on: He shall about it immediately. We will attempt the mistress by the maid: Women by women still are best betrayed. [_Exeunt._ ACT II. SCENE I.