_Sos._ By Bacchus, I was overtaken; but I should be loth that I committed any folly with thee. _Brom._ I am sure, I kept myself awake all night, that I did, in expectation of your coming. [_Crying._ _Sos._ But what amends did I make thee, when I came? _Brom._ You know well enough, to my sorrow, but that you play the hypocrite. _Sos._ I warrant, I was monstrous kind to thee. _Brom._ Yes, monstrous kind indeed: You never said a truer word; for, when I came to kiss you, you pulled away your mouth, and turned your cheek to me. _Sos._ Good. _Brom._ How, good! Here's fine impudence! He justifies! _Sos._ Yes, I do justify, that I turned my cheek, like a prudent person, that my breath might not offend thee; for, now I remember, I had eaten garlick. _Brom._ Ay, you remember, and forget, just as it makes for you, or against you; but, to mend the matter, you never spoke one civil word to me; but stood like a stock, without sense or motion. _Sos._ Yet better. [_Aside._ _Brom._ After which, I lovingly invited you to take your place in your nuptial bed, as the laws of matrimony oblige you; and you inhumanly refused me. _Sos._ Ay, there's the main point of the business! Art thou morally certain, that I refused thee? Look me now in the face, and say I did not commit matrimony with thee! _Brom._ I wonder how thou canst look me in the face, after that refusal! _Sos._ Say it once again, that I did not feloniously come to bed to thee! _Brom._ No, thou cold traitor, thou know'st thou didst not. _Sos._ Best of all!--'twas discreetly done of me to abstain. _Brom._ What, do you insult upon me too? _Sos._ No, I do not insult upon you----but-- _Brom._ But what? How was it discreetly done then? ha! _Sos._ Because it is the received opinion of physicians, that nothing but puling chits, and booby-fools are procreated in drunkenness. _Brom._ A received opinion, snivel-guts! I'll be judged by all the married women of this town, if any one of them has received it. The devil take the physicians for meddling in our matters! If a husband will be ruled by them, there are five weeks of abstinence in dog-days too; for fear a child, that was got in August, should be born just nine months after, and be blear-eyed, like a May kitten. _Sos._ Let the physicians alone; they are honest men, whatever the world says of them. But, for a certain reason, that I best know, I am glad that matter ended so fairly and peaceably betwixt us. _Brom._ Yes, 'twas very fair and peaceably; to strike a woman down, and beat her most outrageously. _Sos._ Is't possible that I drubbed thee? _Brom._ I find your drift; you would fain be provoking me to a new trial now: but, i'faith, you shall bring me to no more handy-blows; I shall make bold to trust to my tongue hereafter. You never durst have offered to hold up a finger against me, till you went a trooping.