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The cheats a comedy : written in the year, M.DC. LXII.
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Wilson, John, 1626-1696.
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morning Mo. You are prettie neat in your house somewhat nimble wittie subtile And a good Bedfellow M. D. Indeed Sir I know not why but I 've been told so Mo. Double-minded Often changing your resolution Prone to be angry but quickly gone And now and then love a bit in a corner M. D. 'T is best eating when one's a hungry Mo. Your good dayes are Monday Wednesday Fryday Your evil Tuesday and Thursday Saturday indifferent Your good Fortune lies South and by Nor'th and therefore direct your Affairs that way and place your Chamber-door and Bed to that side M. D. Now beshrew me Sir but I 'll observe your directions Mo. Once more your hand Your Mons Ventris is exalted You love I marrie that you do M. D. Nay now Sir What d' you mean I love nothing but what all women do their Husbands Mo. Two strange thwarting lines across the Cingulum You have a Sweetheart or two besides your Husband M. D. Who I Sir I 'd have you know I am no such I am as honest a woman as anie in the Parish I scorn your words Mo. No doubt of it Let me see how your hand agrees with my Globe He is He turns his Globe and describes Bil. Suppose I should name him to you B-I-L-Bilboe He belongs to the Sword M. D. Oh Sir have a care If my Husband should hear you he would run Horn-mad and knock both our brains out with his staffe of Authoritie Mo. To shew you more of my Art You had a Bastard before you were marry'd And there is an old Fellow that haunts you He describes the Alderman What say you M. D. O good Sir If you discover me I am undone Enter Boy Boy Sir there are two Gentlemen below desire to speak with you Mo. I 'll wait on 'um presentlie Exit Boy Never fear me We are oblig'd by our Order of the Rosie Cross to keep all confessions secret 'T is our Alderman that 's more M. D. If you should betray me now Mo. I will not I will not But heark you Upon condition still you give me a bit too He colls her M. D. O Sir 't is impossible Your wife 's in t'other Room The Gentlemen stay for you below Somebody's coming up Mrs. Mopus Mrs. Mopus She speaks it as if she would not be heard Mo. Hang her Jade As Mopus kisses and pulls her Enter Jolly and Afterwitt behind them Aft. See See See Y'faith Mr. Doctor Is this your living soberlie temperatelie and enjoying it as if you had it not M. D. skuttles away Jol. Is this your Magisterium Elixar or Rosy Crucian Pantarva No firrah The father of this is the Devil the mother his Dam its brothers and sisters the Tribe of Whore-hoppers the wind carries it from Bawdy house to Bawdy-house and the Nurse thereof is a suburb Tantrum Mo. A plague o' this Boy Undone for ever Aside Jol. Are you so hot I 'll cool you D' ye hear me give the next Porter half a Crown and let him fetch Double Diligence the Constable I am mistaken or the woman we found here was his wife Aft. Keep him in the mean time Jol. I warrant you he stirs not Afterwitt offers to go out Mo. Gentlemen Good Gentlemen As you are men You undo me for ever Studie wherein I may serve you Jol. Stay a little To Afterwitt Confess and you shall see what we 'll say to you Art not thou a damn'd cheating Rogue How hast thou the impudence to believe that anie thing but fools should come near thee Mo. Nor would I by my good will deal with other Do you take the wise men and give me the fools and then see who 'll have the most practice There are but two sorts of people in the World Aut qui captant aut qui captantur Aut Corvi qui lacerant aut Cadavera quaelacerantur which the great Albumazar has most significantlie render'd by Cheators and Cheatees If it were not for fools Sir how should Knaves live Jol. An ingenious beginning If it hold much may be said Mo. You are Gentlemen And I see understand I 'll be plain with you Examine the World and you 'll find three quarters of 't down-right fools And for the rest six parts in seven are little besides band and beard and yet they make a great bussle in the World and pass for shrewd men And can you blame me then Did you ever hear a Fish-wife cry stinking Makarel Or a Citizen gum'd Velvet No The best in the Town though the worst in his Shop Here we have a learned consultation whither my Ladie may eat Butter with her Eggs or have her Posset turn'd with Lemon or Ale Yonder another keeps a sputter with his New New New The Wall-ey'd Mare and the crop't slea-bitten A Book with a hard Title A new found language in Ireland Turk and Pope The Flesh-office My Ladies Dog The safest way of cutting of Corns A bag of Writings A house o' the Bank-side The Christning of another Turk A Franciscan Proselyte Gentlemen-ushers and Maid-servants Dentifrices and Lozenges Another dawbs you whole Volumes with the difference between sufficient and efficacious Another whither the lining of Aaron's Ephod were Sky-colour'd or Sea-green And hack and hew so desperately about their Goats wooll a man would bless himself to see such piles of elaborate Non-sense And now Gentlemen Am I the onlie man in fault The worst you can say is The people have so little wit as to give me money and I am so mad as to pocket the injurie Does this satisfie Aft. Rogue enough But is't not possible to make thee honest Mo. Try me I have a Wife and three Children The Devil take my Wife and two of them if ever I fail you Aft. A safe wish But suppose I should order it so that a young Ladie come to you could you so read her fortune as to make her marrie me You know how to play your part if you please Mo. And if I don't to your advantage Cut my throat Aft. He must know 't at last I had as good tell him the person To Jolly Jol. So you may And do Aft. Hold up thy hand To make thee honest here 's twentie Peeces for thee and if thou do'st the business I 'll give thee two hundred more What say'st thou Mo. If I betray you or do not my best be seven years in killing me Aft. You know Alderman Whitebroth Mo. Know him Why I am his Doctor Aft. 'T is his Daughter You know your work Mo. And if I don't do 't I 'll run my Countrey And now Gentlemen you shall say I am honest You observ'd the woman that was here when you came in Aft. Yes what of her Mo. Why She is the Constables wife whom to be short the Alderman Cuckolds Jol. Ha! Are you sure of it Mo. By the help of this Globe I made her confess That the Alderman and one Bilboe play Level de coile with her But I may tell it you now