_L. Dupe._ I am sure my niece suffers most in't; he's come off to her with a cold compliment of a mistake in his mistress's virtue, which he has now found out, by your master's folly, to be a plot of yours to separate them. _Chr._ To be forsaken, when a woman has given her consent! _Lord._ 'Tis the same scorn, as to have a town rendered up, and afterwards slighted. _Rose._ You are a sweet youth, sir, to use my lady so, when she depended on you; is this the faith of a valet de chambre? I would be ashamed to be such a dishonour to my profession; it will reflect upon us in time; we shall be ruined by your good example. _Warn._ As how, my dear lady embassadress? _Rose._ Why, they say the women govern their ladies, and you govern us: So if you play fast and loose, not a gallant will bribe us for our good wills; the gentle guinea will now go to the ordinary, which used as duly to steal into our hands at the stair-foot, as into Mr Doctor's at parting. _Lord._ Night's come, and I expect your promise. _L. Dupe._ Fail with me if you think good, sir. _Chr._ I give no more time. _Rose._ And if my mistress go to bed a maid to-night-- _Warn._ Hey-day! you are dealing with me, as they do with the bankrupts, call in all your debts together; there's no possibility of payment at this rate, but I'll coin for you all as fast as I can, I assure you. _L. Dupe._ But you must not think to pay us with false money, as you have done hitherto. _Rose._ Leave off your mountebank tricks with us, and fall to your business in good earnest. _Warn._ Faith, and I will, Rose; for, to confess the truth, I am a kind of mountebank; I have but one cure for all your diseases, that is, that my master may marry Mrs Millisent, for then Sir John Swallow will of himself return to Mrs Christian. _Lord._ He says true, and therefore we must all be helping to that design. _Warn._ I'll put you upon something, give me but a thinking time. In the first place, get a warrant and bailiffs to arrest Sir John Swallow upon a promise of marriage to Mrs Christian. _Lord._ Very good. _L. Dupe._ We'll all swear it. _Warn._ I never doubted your ladyship in the least, madam--for the rest we will consider hereafter. _Lord._ Leave this to us. [_Ex. Lord, Lady_ DUPE, _and_ CHR. _Warn._ Rose, where's thy lady? _Mill._ [_above_.] What have you to say to her? _Warn._ Only to tell you, madam, I am going forward in the great work of projection. _Mill._ I know not whether you will deserve my thanks when the work's done. _Warn._ Madam, I hope you are not become indifferent to my master? _Mill._ If he should prove a fool, after all your crying up his wit, I shall be a miserable woman. _Warn._ A fool! that were a good jest, i'faith: but how comes your ladyship to suspect it? _Rose._ I have heard, madam, your greatest wits have ever a touch of madness and extravagance in them, so perhaps has he.