_Mons._ But you will promise then to have the care of my honour? pray, good madam, have de care of my honour, pray have de care of my honour. Will you have care of my honour? pray have de care of my honour, and do not tell if you can help it; pray, dear madam, do not tell. [_Kneels to them._ _Flirt._ I would not tell for fear of losing you, my love for you will make me secret. _Mons._ Why, do you love me? _Flirt._ Indeed I cannot help telling you now, what my modesty ought to conceal, but my eyes would disclose it too:--I have a passion for you, sir. _Mons._ A passion for me! _Flirt._ An extreme passion, dear sir; you are so French, so mightily French, so agreeable French--but I'll tell you more of my heart at home: come along. _Mons._ But is your pation sincere? _Flirt._ The truest in the world. _Mons._ Well then, I'll venture my body with thee for one night. _Flirt._ For one night! don't you believe that; and so you would leave me to-morrow? but I love you so, I cannot part with you, you must keep me for good and all, if you will have me. I can't leave you for my heart. _Mons._ How! keep, _jarni!_ de whore Englis have notinge but keepe, keepe in dere mouths now-a-days, _tête non!_--Formerly 'twas enoughe to keep de shild, _ma foi!_ _Flirt._ Nay, I will be kept, else--but, come, we'll talk on't at home. _Mons._ Umh--so, so, ver vel; de amour of de whore does alway end in keep, ha! keep, _ma foi!_ keep, ha!-- The punk that entertains you wit her passion, Is like kind host who makes the invitation, At your own cost, to his _fort bonne collation._ [_Exeunt._ ACT THE SECOND. SCENE I.--Don DIEGO'S _House in the morning._ _Enter_ Don DIEGO _in a Spanish habit, and_ Mrs. CAUTION. _Don._ Have you had a Spanish care of the honour of my family? that is to say, have you kept my daughter close in my absence, as I directed? _Mrs. Caut._ I have sir, but it was as much as I could do. _Don._ I knew that; for 'twas as much as I could do to keep up her mother;--I that have been in Spain, look you. _Mrs. Caut._ Nay 'tis a hard task to keep up an Englishwoman. _Don._ As hard as it is for those who are not kept up to be honest, look you, _con licencia_, sister. _Mrs. Caut._ How now, brother! I am sure my husband never kept me up. _Don._ I knew that, therefore I cried _con licencia_, sister, as the Spaniards have it. _Mrs. Caut._ But you Spaniards are too censorious, brother. _Don._ You Englishwomen, sister, give us too much cause, look you;--but you are sure my daughter has not seen a man since my departure? _Mrs. Caut._ No, not so much as a churchman. _Don._ As a churchman! _voto!_ I thank you for that; not a churchman! not a churchman! _Mrs. Caut._ No, not so much as a churchman; but of any, one would think one might trust a churchman.