_Free._ Why, faith, (to be short) to marry you, widow. _Wid._ Is not this the wild rude person we saw at Captain Manly's? _Jer._ Ay, forsooth, an't please. _Wid._ What would you? what are you? Marry me! _Free._ Ay, faith; for I am a younger brother, and you are a widow. _Wid._ You are an impertinent person; and go about your business. _Free._ I have none, but to marry thee, widow. _Wid._ But I have other business, I'd have you to know. _Free._ But you have no business a-nights, widow; and I'll make you pleasanter business than any you have. For a-nights, I assure you, I am a man of great business; for the business-- _Wid._ Go, I'm sure you're an idle fellow. _Free._ Try me but, widow, and employ me as you find my abilities and industry. _Old._ Pray be civil to the lady, Mr.----she is a person of quality, a person that is no person-- _Free._ Yes, but she's a person that is a widow. Be you mannerly to her, because you are to pretend only to be her squire, to arm her to her lawyer's chambers; but I will be impudent and bawdy; for she must love and marry me. _Wid._ Marry come up, you saucy familiar Jack! You think, with us widows, 'tis no more than up, and ride. Gad forgive me! now-a-days, every idle, young, hectoring, roaring companion, with a pair of turned red breeches, and a broad back, thinks to carry away any widow of the best degree. But I'd have you to know, sir, all widows are not got, like places at court, by impudence and importunity only. _Old._ No, no, soft, soft, you are a young man, and not fit-- _Free._ For a widow? yes sure, old man, the fitter. _Old._ Go to, go to; if others had not laid in their claims before you-- _Free._ Not you, I hope. _Old._ Why not I, sir? sure I am a much more proportionable match for her than you, sir; I, who am an elder brother, of a comfortable fortune, and of equal years with her. _Wid._ How's that, you unmannerly person? I'd have you to know, I was born but in _Ann' undec' Caroli prim'_. _Old._ Your pardon, lady, your pardon: be not offended with your very humble servant--But, I say, sir, you are a beggarly younger brother, twenty years younger than her, without any land or stock, but your great stock of impudence: therefore what pretension can you have to her? _Free._ You have made it for me: first, because I am a younger brother. _Wid._ Why, is that a sufficient plea to a relict? how appears it, sir? by what foolish custom? _Free._ By custom time out of mind only. Then, sir, because I have nothing to keep me after her death, I am the likelier to take care of her life. And for my being twenty years younger than her, and having a sufficient stock of impudence, I leave it to her whether they will be valid exceptions to me in her widow's law or equity.