_Ver._ Nay, she deserves you should report it at least, though you have not. _Man._ Report it! by Heaven, 'tis true! _Ver._ How! sure not. _Man._ I do not use to lie, nor you to doubt me. _Ver._ When? _Man._ Last night, about seven or eight of the clock. _Ver._ Ha!--[_Aside._] Now I remember, I thought she spake as if she expected some other rather than me. A confounded whore, indeed! _Man._ But what, thou wonderest at it! nay, you seem to be angry too. _Ver._ I cannot but be enraged against her, for her usage of you: damned infamous, common jade! _Man._ Nay, her cuckold, who first cuckolded me in my money, shall not laugh all himself: we will do him reason, shan't we? _Ver._ Ay, ay. _Man._ But thou dost not, for so great a friend, take pleasure enough in your friend's revenge, methinks. _Ver._ Yes, yes; I'm glad to know it, since you have lain with her. _Man._ Thou canst not tell who that rascal, her cuckold, is? _Ver._ No. _Man._ She would keep it from you, I suppose. _Ver._ Yes, yes. _Man._ Thou wouldst laugh, if thou knewest but all the circumstances of my having her. Come, I'll tell thee. _Ver._ Damn her! I care not to hear any more of her. _Man._ Faith, thou shalt. You must know-- _Re-enter_ FREEMAN _backwards, endeavouring to keep out_ NOVEL, Lord PLAUSIBLE, JERRY BLACKACRE, _and_ Major OLDFOX, _who all press upon him._ _Free._ I tell you he has a wench with him, and would be private. _Man._ Damn 'em! a man can't open a bottle in these eating-houses, but presently you have these impudent, intruding, buzzing flies and insects in your glass.--Well, I'll tell thee all anon. In the mean time prithee go to her, but not from me, and try if you can get her to lend me but a hundred pounds of my money, to supply my present wants; for I suppose there is no recovering any of it by law. _Ver._ Not any: think not of it. Nor by this way neither. _Man._ Go try, at least. _Ver._ I'll go; but I can satisfy you beforehand it will be to no purpose. You'll no more find a refunding wench-- _Man._ Than a refunding lawyer; indeed their fees alike scarce ever return. However, try her; put it to her. _Ver._ Ay, ay, I'll try her; put it to her home with a vengeance. [_Exit._ _Nov._ Nay, you shall be our judge, Manly--Come, major, I'll speak it to your teeth; if people provoke me to say bitter things to their faces, they must take what follows; though, like my lord Plausible, I'd rather do't civilly behind their backs. _Man._ Nay, thou art a dangerous rogue, I've heard, behind a man's back. _L. Plau._ You wrong him sure, noble captain; he would do a man no more harm behind his back than to his face. _Free._ I am of my lord's mind. _Man._ Yes, a fool, like a coward, is the more to be, feared behind a man's back, more than a witty man; for as a coward is more bloody than a brave man, a fool is more malicious than a man of wit.