_Luc._ Away with the gay sots, and because I have no plagues in hell equal to their deserts, let them be a torment to one another. Away with them. [_As they go off, the Beaus discourse._ _1 Beau. Gh._ Well, _Ned_, shall I speak before it is too late: you may depend on my excellence in oratory, ’tis my talent; I never writ billet-deux in my life, but it prevail’d with the cruel nymph: and do you think I can’t with the devil? I’ll perswade him out of his seven senses, man? d--me, I’ll make it appear to him that he is a god, and all that, man: r--t me, _Ned_, be not obstinate. _2 Beau. Gh._ Z--ns, Sir, no more of that strain. Sir, you’re a coxcomb. What doubt my universal parts? _Luc._ You with such a busy face, speak, what are you? _Here abundance of Cits, in various dresses, come forward._ _Cit. Ghost._ An’t please your infernal majesty, I was a right worshipful citizen of _London_, that famous _Metropolis_ of _England_, and I have born all the honourable employments of the same, ev’n to sheriff and lord-mayor: I was long of the court of aldermen, and one of the chief spokesmen of the common-council: I made speeches, and penn’d most of the addresses. But ’tis not for being a cuckold alone, or that I was feign to cheat so many to maintain my wife’s pride and luxury, that I am damn’d with this right worshipful crew here; for those are crimes common to the rest of our brother-citizens, as well as us; but we were so mad to marry second wives, and for their sakes turn our children out of doors, (after we had bred them up in all the ease and luxury of the age) to seek their fortunes in the wide world, and left our estates to our wives at our death, who will be sure to bestow them on some silly hectoring spendthrift bully of _Alsatia_ or other, and let the children, begot of our own bodies, starve. _Luc._ Away with that rank gang of fools, as well as knaves, who cou’d so much forget nature and its necessary and known laws, as to cast off their own off-spring, to give away their substance to those that will not only misuse it, but contemn the memory of them that were their benefactors, with so great an injury to nature.