_Don._ No, you think you are wiser than I now, in earnest: but know, while I was thought a gull, I gulled you all, and made them and you think I knew nothing of the contrivance. Confess, did not you think verily that I knew nothing of it, and that I was a gull? _Mrs. Caut._ Yes indeed, brother, I did think verily you were a gull. _Hip._ How's this? [_Listening._ _Don._ Alas, alas! all the sputter I made was but to make this young man, my cousin, believe, when the thing should be effected, that it was not with my connivance or consent; but since he is so well satisfied, I own it. For do you think I would ever have suffered her to marry a monsieur, a monsieur? _guarda!_--besides, it had been but a beastly incestuous kind of a match, _voto!_-- _Mrs. Caut._ Nay, then I see, brother, you are wiser than I indeed. _Ger._ So, so. _Mrs. Caut._ Nay, young man, you have danced a fair dance for yourself, royally; and now you may go jig it together till you are both weary. And though you were so eager to have him, Mrs. Minx, you'll soon have your bellyful of him, let me tell you, mistress. _Prue._ Ha! ha! _Mons._ How, uncle! what was't you said? Nay, if I had your Spanish policy against me, it was no wonder I missed of my aim, _ma foi!_ _Don._ I was resolved too my daughter should not marry a coward, therefore made the more the more ado to try you, sir. But I find you are a brisk man of honour, firm stiff Spanish honour; and that you may see I deceived you all along, and you not me, ay, and am able to deceive you still, for I know now you think that I will give you little or nothing with my daughter, like other fathers, since you have married her without my consent--but, I say, I'll deceive you now; for you shall have the most part of my estate in present, and the rest at my death.--There's for you: I think I have deceived you now, look you. _Ger._ No, indeed, sir, you have not deceived me; for I never suspected your love to your daughter, nor your generosity. _Don._ How, sir! have a care of saying I have not deceived you, lest I deceive you another way, _guarda!_--Pray, gentlemen, do not think any man could deceive me, look you; that any man could steal my daughter, look you, without my connivance:-- The less we speak, the more we think; And he sees most, that seems to wink. _Hip._ So, so, now I could give you my blessing, father; now you are a good complaisant father, indeed:-- When children marry, parents should obey, Since love claims more obedience far than they. [_Exeunt._ EPILOGUE SPOKEN BY FLIRT.